It sure feels impossible to have an honest conversation about Starfield online right now.

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    Is it possible to block a domain without blocking the OP? I’m sure they’re a nice person, but they post the dumbest rage bait articles, and I’m sick of seeing them in my feed.

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        They like your contributions. You’re part of the conversation. I think it’s reasonable to want to filter what post you see versus what conversations you see. Lemmy will evolve

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      Wait it’s the same person posting all these weird rage bait articles for every new big game?

      They’re always weird too because they’ll talk about an issue everyone already discussed at length like 2-4 weeks ago, as if it’s a new topic.

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        I think the ones that bother me more are the ones that are rage bait for a thing that the OP hasn’t even experienced themselves. Maybe everyone else enjoys X and you find an article that summarizes your feeling on it, so you post that article and say how you share that position. That’s all well and good. But posting an article that’s angry about FFXVI’s depiction of slavery, even though OP has no first-hand experience with the game to say if the article is full of shit or not; that bugs me. I don’t know how many of the topics the OP has first-hand experience with, but I know they have none with FFXVI, and all of these articles are just designed to get people angry about something. Plenty of games have slavery in them without having to make their story about slavery being bad; we know slavery is bad. If OP has a problem with it after playing the game and that article sums up their thoughts, then it’s okay to post that article. If OP is sincerely as pissed off about every one of these things that the articles they post are pissed off about, then maybe I should block them, because they’d have to be a miserable person. We also don’t need 3 slightly updated posts about Baldur’s Gate 3’s split-screen not working on the Series S.

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          I post things that I think can get people talking and spark conversations along with things I think are interesting. I posted this, for example, because of the way it was talking about how gamers can get tribal and make it so you can’t seriously talk about a game when that happens because of how some folks lose their shit when you try.

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            It starts conversations because it’s designed to get people angry. It’s the kind of engagement-driving Twitter nonsense that the fediverse doesn’t rely on. Try shooting from the heart with your own opinion in a self post rather than just posting the most outrageous thing someone said on the internet today.

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              There’s literally no one angry in these comments except the folks complaining about this being posted. Everyone else is talking about the game.

              But you have a nice day.

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        I mean if you look at the post history, OP has posted a LOT of things, but also posted two mary sue articles with kind of inflammatory takes on BG3, and Starfield. So I would not say they specifically have been posting rage bait.

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        They are just a super poster, they post just tons of gaming articles that strike their fancy, which is cool it keeps this community fresh, but it’s not always good, just is what it is, I won’t complain really because it’s not like I’m much of a poster.

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      Is it possible to block a domain without blocking the OP?

      You mean, block the domain of the link? Maybe you could do that with a keyword filter in an app. Unfortunately it’s not a native Lemmy/kbin function (yet, AFAIK).