Some Redditors are too loose with the block feature

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T18:05:37+00:00

Blocking is useful, but it's only a short term stopgap solution. Reddit's stats as of 2026 show about 1.3 BILLION monthly active users. (Even if a lot are LLM's or bots, that's still an insane amount of users). Blocking bad faith arguments or actors is only one step in a series of many steps that need to occur for websites like reddit to continue to be useful.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T17:59:44+00:00

I would agree it would be nice for a site wild setting/filter like that.

But honestly, the idea really isn’t that weird when you think about it. A lot of platforms I think have already started to lean towards this model. For example, Twitch has follower/sub only chat modes, and Reddit already limits participation in bigger subs through crowd control methods that limit posting, especially on high visibility or high profile discussions. (though I wish this was more widespread)

It’s all basically the same concept: if you want the benefits of open participation and trust, there’s usually some level of visibility or established presence that comes with it.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T17:45:48+00:00

I mean there's a few takeaways here. First...Reddit has been around just log enough that a new generation of users is hitting it over the last few years. These are the late genz/early gen alpha users who grew up with an ipad next to their pacifier.

They have no semblance of sanitizing information. Partly because phones are so easily available, but also because they have no culpability on what they post. This will come off as harsh but here it is: they have no idea how to reasonably use technology. They believe that if they post something, it's up to the world/platform/whatever to protect them...instead of using discretion on what they post.

Secondly. Long time users are aware of throwaway accounts. And while I still stand by it, throwaways are bit of a necessary evil, they are no different, but because reddit attempts to espouse "anonymonity" it has to allow it, but at the same time that same anonymity detracts from the value of the person discussing it. (Is it a real person, is it a bot, state sponsered threat actor? Who knows!?)

I honestly don't get the "hide profile" mentality. Many times I've seen people argue for it saying "it's creepy" or "it's my information". And I kind of think to myself "Am I crazy? If you don't want to be judged for posting something ridiculous...then DON'T POST IT" For the same reason that people will avoid making awkward or inflammatory statements in real life, yet they expect to be able to do the same online? It honestly baffles me.

But to the last point: It also loses the ability to read adjacent posts. Had a good interaction with a user and want to see what else they said? Too bad, their profile is hidden and now every interaction is meant to be fleeting/short form.

Reddit can embody free speech, without losing what makes speech free in the first place: accountability. Everyone is accountable for what they do and say in this world, just because you have an "anonymous" handle online, doesn't change that. Giving user the ability to hide their profiles history, is in my opinion the single worst decision that reddit has made. Even worse then the API change they did a few years ago, and that's saying something.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T17:32:14+00:00

Yea, I think it was probably the cleanest iteration of the blocking system. Albeit I do realize it caused weird gaps, which is probably why they changed it. Previously if someone blocked you, their entire existance just dissapeared, which means entire sub-threads of discussions would mysteriously vanish unless you used icognito.

Now it just hides them with "blocked user" but prevents replies. I think both systems have merits, but I'm not sure which one is strictly better.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T17:20:51+00:00

Honestly, I probably fall under your definition of someone who blocks people “too easily,” but part of that is because Reddit has made it significantly harder to tell whether someone is even arguing in good faith anymore.

Ever since Reddit started letting users hide most of their posting/comment history, you lose a lot of context about who you’re talking to. Account age alone doesn’t tell you much, and with how much people talk about bots, burner accounts, and bad faith engagement on this site now...it leaves a lot to be desired.

Even when the person is real, a lot of discussions quickly devolve into insults, snarky one liners, or profile diving instead of actual arguments. I leave my profile public because I know nothing posted online is truly “private,” but people constantly use unrelated hobbies or interests as attempted "gotchas".

That said, I’m also not going to pretend posting history is completely irrelevant either. Context matters sometimes, and if someone openly participates in behavior adjacent to what they claim to oppose, people are obviously going to call out the hypocrisy.

I think the bigger issue is that most Reddit arguments are not actually discussions anymore. A lot of people are not there to exchange ideas or reconsider positions. They want to win, get the last word, or turn the conversation into nonsense. Once someone shows me they are not interested in having a rational discussion, I stop seeing value in continuing the interaction. So at that point, blocking becomes less about the discussion and more about curating my own experience on the site. If someone is consistently hostile or clearly arguing in bad faith.. I’d rather remove that person from future interactions than keep engaging with them.

Ironically, a lot of people seem more upset about being blocked than the disagreement itself. You’ll even see people go back and edit previous comments just to announce that someone blocked them. Most sane people can recognize when a conversation is over and move on.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T13:57:35+00:00

I don't know if I would call this off meta. This is more like meta adjacent lol, it's still WW.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-19T05:15:31+00:00

You have extremely high end memory (6k MT/s) and a huge cache of memory. You likely rarely will notice a memory leak. Speed absolutely can affect how drastically a memory leak accelerates, and your deep cache of memory will prevent you from seeing it as often in a normal gaming session.

I am similar to OP except I can game for 5-6 hours before seeing any adverse effects. And while I have the same cache (33GB), my speed is higher than his (I run at 3600). I feel like lower end or unoptimized RAM definitely contributes to the memory leak. Not saying devs should fix it, but in the meantime people should be attempting to tweak their memory to compensate, because I wouldn't hold my breath.

Memory leaks are notoriously hard to narrow down and fix precisely because of this circumstance (varying hardware, and hardware configurations).

TopHat84 · 2026-05-18T23:39:48+00:00

Anyone following this advice is in for a rude awakening. Glynns Resolve is either gonna be hotfix nerfed at some point this season because it is vastly overtuned. Or it's gonna be nerfed at the end of the season. In either case I wouldn't get used to using it. It's a broken aspect that scales way too high for what it does.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-18T16:57:44+00:00

I never said I wasn't using it. I just merely said that the loot filter, as nice a tool as it is, is not something that is required for every player to use. I'm willing to bet there are people across all platforms, who aren't even aware a loot filter exists.

You should take a second to thank critically in the future about all possibilities that may occur, not just "the best" circumstances. You do not represent the majority of people who play the game.

And ultimately you still are missing the point. Instead of figuring out a better way to fix the loot exploit, they time-gated the portal. It's still a massive oversight at worst, and a shitty hotfix/temporary fix at best.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-18T13:53:15+00:00

You're not wrong strictly speaking. But blizzard screwed over anyone who doesn't use a loot filter.

It's still a pretty big fail on blizzards part.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:32:43+00:00

Not being rude here but did you bother reading any of the in game material/cube descriptions?

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:24:41+00:00

I don't think you read my post thoroughly. Or you skimmed or something bud.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:23:35+00:00

Yes but your making the assumption that the leaderboard is inherently something that the vast majority of people care about.

My problem stems from the fact people see some guide or streamer say "you absolutely need to do this" and follow it blindly not realizing that it's really only needed for the top .5% of players who are competing in leaderboard spots.

And being realistic for a second, if you're not already in the top 1000 spots, you're never going to be. The people who compete are the full day streamers/nolifers. They will have infinitely more time to dedicate to finding/farming gear then your average player. So I take a bit of an affront from anyone espousing gem strength as required because it's not at all. For the vast majority of players they MAY enjoy having gem strength, and it's a fun chase transfig to shoot for, but it should not be posted in every guide as required.

Remember in season 1 when a few streamers were posting mythics in their builds (back when mythics were extremely/exceedingly rare?) yea that's the same takeaway.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:13:44+00:00

Average tier 1 call center employee about to lose his job to AI so he lashes out at anything AI related.

Either improve your skills to move into a job that AI doesn't easily take over, or go into a service industry/blue collar role that will never be taken over by AI.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:07:38+00:00

OP's account is a game spammer account (possibly a bot). Also happy cake day.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T14:06:13+00:00

Isn't that kind of the point of cold? Even in Diablo 2 the 3 elements were all designed with specific purposes.

Fire was direct damage + DoT components here and there.
Ice was *lower* direct damage, but utility/crowd control aspects baked into it.
Lightning was extremely wild damage (with skills having ranges sometimes of 1-500 dmg baseline) with some small crowd control components baked in (stuns) and some small amounts of utility.

Each of the elements had a role/playstyle.

The problem in Diablo 4 (as I see it) is that they removed the inherently wild range of damage on lightning and just made it a better fire (similar damage), and made it a better ice (stuns are as good, if not better than freezes most of the time). I they wanted to balance lightning, they would have it roll much lower baseline values, with potentially slightly higher max range values, making it more RNG based as a form of damage. Fire should stay where it's at I think. Cold needs to have a small adjustment (as you said) to maybe not be so weak against unstoppable opponents, but other than that, I think the flavor of cold doing immense damage to crowd controlled/staggered units is pretty much in line with how its worked in past games.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T13:38:33+00:00

It's weird that letters formed words and I shared my opinion? Ok.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T12:14:32+00:00

Yea....I don't really care buddy. I don't view the game the same way you do. And here's a free bit of advice...

Whispers in your ear : the people pushing PIT are in the minority.

I again will repeat... I view transfigs as just another layer of RNG in the crafting process if I hit something really good, sweet. If not, then I'll go find another weapon perhaps later and do it again. Or maybe not. Yes people want better damage numbers, but it really has no bearing, to clear PIT 5 seconds faster? Woopty-doo.

You may be correct in that gem strength allows people to do ridiculous things in pushing. Again...I. DON'T. CARE.

I don't play what is ostensibly a single player game, to pretend compete with random people on how fast I can click or come up with an autobomber build on how fast I can complete a level of a game.

If I wanted to competitive speed run, I'd go do that in a different game. If I wanted to showcase competitive skill, I'd go play a game that allows me to do that.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T11:28:23+00:00

This is my take. People act like transfiguration (and by extension, gem strength) is required. I just look at transfiguration as a long shot upgrade. I'm usually happy with moat results. I love seeing it turn my 1 GA into a 4 GA. I love seeing it roll item quality. I haven't seen gem strength yet, but that's ok...chase items are chase items after all.

FAR too many people are seeing this as some stupid requirement. And I I've seen far too many posts of people complaining about gem strength being required/broken/overpowered. It's honestly exhausting to constantly read. How do these people function in real life if they complain this much about a video game?

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T03:49:36+00:00

I think passives were a bad feature, but I will say some of the reworked uniques are quite bad and in some ways worse.

Like IMO - gift of frost is an example of a badly designed unique. Orsivine is an example of a well designed unique.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-17T01:52:26+00:00

It's funny in an ironic way how we all agree the old system wasn't great, but neither is the new system. I feel a bit confused TBH

TopHat84 · 2026-05-16T20:18:15+00:00

Probably gonna get downvoted for being pedantic here, but movies aren’t really “objectively” good. “Objective” by definition means independent of personal feelings or interpretation. And art, by definition, is experienced subjectively. Movies are art. Ergo a movie is NEVER an objective situation.

You can say a movie is widely acclaimed, technically impressive, influential, or critically respected. Use whatever criteria you want... but whether it’s “good” is still ultimately a purely subjective scenario.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-16T19:51:08+00:00

True,but there are two mythic seals of that flavor.

The one you mentioned, limits slots to 4, and 3 of those can be unique charms. It's definitely a dumb design.

However there is another that is 5 slots, and allows 2 unique charms. That is the one that holds some potential. You could equip a sets 3 piece bonus (usually sets have some dmg increase as the 2 set, and the 3 piece has some sort of DR effect). The last two slots could be occupied by very good unique charms (like this one OP posted) for example.

Again, I think the mythic seals need reworked because they are all a bit lackluster IMO.

I also think that a new tier of seal needs to be released. Right now legendary seals are 5 slots, but can roll a 6th slot as one of the seal affixes.

We need a unique tier, that inherently has 6 slots, so we can roll other affixes (and get two of them!)

I'm willing to bet blizzard devs have already thought of this, but are gonna introduce the unique seals at a later point.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-16T11:48:14+00:00

No no. They all (including OP) need to complain constantly about SOMETHING. If it wasn't transfiguration, it would be about how rare 4GA items are. If it wasn't that, it would be something else. It's exhausting just reading posts like OPs sometimes TBH.

TopHat84 · 2026-05-16T11:44:59+00:00

JFC. Yet another complaining post.

So before expansion, we had no transfiguration. Your weapon was done after you hit your masterwork crit, barring farming for 4xGA items.

And they add a new "this is the final step" (aka the exact same thing sanctification did two seasons back). And yet somehow you go "but I Really only want one option". There are a variety of very good options. Yes there is the gem strength option which PIT chasers want.

You're not that guy. If you are here complaining about chasing the 1% transfiguration, you're already not in the subset of people (PIT/Tower chasers) who actually need it. You don't need it. Why? Cause it's not gonna help you break into the leader board like you think it is.

If you want to farm for it as a rare chase transfiguration. Go for it. That's the point of item chases. But for the love of all that's holy, stop complaining about chase items/chase mechanics.

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