Blocked from viewing series? That's a bit much

[TheLemmaLlama]

Also, that's how almost all social media block features work. I've yet to see a block feature that doesn't also totally block the user from seeing the blocker's content

Huh, I didn't know that; the only experience I may have had with a block feature was on Discord (or at least I assumed the other person blocked me, since I could no longer PM them despite us still sharing the same servers and them still being active). In that case I could still see their comments in servers (including new ones), as well as our PM history.

So it didn't really make much sense to me for block features to forbid the blockee from viewing the blocker's (public) content, but your comment helped me understand the reasoning behind that, so thanks :]

If it's that irrelevant, they didn't to bring it up, but OP brought it up like we were supposed to sympathise with them making a light hearted joke only to get blocked, if they want that, they have to tell us what they said. I'm not going to go "oh you poor thing, that was such an overraction" if I don't know what they said.

It's perfectly normal for people to provide some brief context for why they're asking a question (or interpreting something a certain way; for instance, earlier in this very comment I mentioned someone (probably) blocked me on Discord, but I sure as heck aren't asking you or anyone to say "oh you poor thing, that was such an overreaction").

If anything I assumed OP omitting the details meant that they didn't want anyone to evaluate who was in the wrong here. You're the one who's assuming they wanted us to "sympathise with them making a light hearted joke only to get blocked".

(Besides, if they didn't lay out their personal experience on the table, there was every possibility someone would've still been like "hm, why do you ask? you salty about being blocked for being an asshole? lmao" -.-)

I hate to be captain obvious but I can't help that this is getting glossed over.

Some people did address this, but I guess it's easy to forget about them after reading the incoming flood of AITA takes :'D

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Also, just for the record @leiseflustern, I don't care what you said - the fact that you were willing to delete and apologize as well as respecting people's choice to block you for any reason makes you cool in my book. I've said some dumb shit in the past which was well-intentioned at the time, but in hindsight it was super cringe and I totally would not want to bring it up for people to scrutinize when I already realise it's cringe.

I can see a bit of salt in your comment about how the author decided to block you without talking to you first, but I don't believe you're actually judging the author for making this decision in that you believe they have no right to do so. Your feelings are not your beliefs! And I think what you're really complaining about here is Tapas' system for blocking, and not the author (who might not even know blocking you would also block you from viewing their series).

I really hope you read this; your OP and the reactions in this thread reminded me of some stuff I went through when I was newer to the internet, so I wanted to make sure you felt at least somewhat understood ^^;

[VersusVII]

Maybe the author feel offended by your joke and hit the first "block option" they found. I didn't know on Tapas you could just mute someone from commenting but could still be able to read your stuff. Maybe this user felt disturbed by your sudden comment and found it offensive.

For my experience, block is an "easy" way to solve things: I don't want to discuss thing, to loose time messaging and arguing to someone? Block them.

I have a question for people who know more then me how the block feature works: is it possible readers could block or prevent the author to look to their profile? I wanted to block some users but when I look for them, nothing appears. They can interact with my content, but I can't do the same.

[moontokkym]

On most platforms it's possible for anyone to block anyone. Authors on tapas don't have any special UI outside of their own works so yeah, readers can block authors. Not being able to find them when searching could just be that they aren't active/interactive enough. I can't find my friend when I name search her on the tapas app despite knowing for a fact I'm not blocked, being subbed to her comic, and her comic has over 1,5k subs. It's more likely that her comic and account have been inactive for over a year.

As for the reason readers block authors, I know of some book critics who are very explicit about their reviews not having any craft tips in them and therefore being only for readers that will preemptively block authors whose books they are going to talk about. Some will do it even if the review is positive so that they can avoid the author temptation/digital self harm and/or protect themselves from author backlash if the review is negative.

There's a lot of discussion about authors behaving badly in reader spaces at the moment (going as far as stalking and attempted murder in some extreme edge cases, usually "just" harassment and death threats) so some readers will block when in doubt. Most of the time I would try to not take it personally.

[VersusVII]

Mmm, I see. I've never thought inactive account could go invisible after a lot of time, I'll check it out.
My problem is mostly people who binge read and like a serie I use as portfolio. I got hundreds of views in one day, get some likes and then not even an Ad impression the day after. So they basically enjoy my content using ad-block active. Ok, they are free to view on Tapas, but not even getting a bit of ad revenue is pissing me off and I can't even block them. This happened four or five times with different users. If I look for their names, I don't find them.

[moontokkym]

Tbh you're not losing anything worth being angry about. I've also had binge readers go through my whole comic, all 47 chapters, one time I was lucky I got two in one day. I earned 1 cent that month. I also earned 1 cent the month prior, when I had over 200 more ad impressions. People using adblock really isn't going to make a difference to your revenue and if they read through and like what they see, blocking them specifically for using adblock and not anything they've said or done that's hateful might just lower your engagement in the future because they won't be able to return to your comics. You at most lost 1 cent's worth of Adrev... I feel like that's not even worth the time you spent looking for those accounts to block them...