"And it seems to me, not keeping count mind you, that a lot of your reported conversations on here end in blocks."
I decided to have a search after you said this as I had no idea! I think 5 of the conversations I've mentioned here ended in blocks. Plus one where I blocked the guy. And two of those weren't even conversations. They were replies to other people's articles where I got blocked because my criticism of what they wrote was true and got too popular.
A lot of the time people don't reply if they realise they're wrong. Again, it's vanishingly rare that somebody admits it during a conversation, but those people never block me.
How do you find this out? In my last Medium backup in the Blocked folder there's a list of people who I'd blocked (less than ten) but nothing about who blocked me. How can you tell?
You can't get a direct count as far as I know, but you always know when somebody has blocked you because you get the "Unknown User" notification on Medium.
I always go back to copy/paste the conversations that I paste here, so I'd know if any of them had blocked me. But it happens really rarely. I think Tessa just blocked me because she realised she was being silly and her ego couldn't cope.
Yes it is possible and I have had my own successes but most of the time they turn out to be correcting presumptions, not changing minds.
And it seems to me, not keeping count mind you, that a lot of your reported conversations on here end in blocks.
"And it seems to me, not keeping count mind you, that a lot of your reported conversations on here end in blocks."
I decided to have a search after you said this as I had no idea! I think 5 of the conversations I've mentioned here ended in blocks. Plus one where I blocked the guy. And two of those weren't even conversations. They were replies to other people's articles where I got blocked because my criticism of what they wrote was true and got too popular.
A lot of the time people don't reply if they realise they're wrong. Again, it's vanishingly rare that somebody admits it during a conversation, but those people never block me.
How do you find this out? In my last Medium backup in the Blocked folder there's a list of people who I'd blocked (less than ten) but nothing about who blocked me. How can you tell?
You can't get a direct count as far as I know, but you always know when somebody has blocked you because you get the "Unknown User" notification on Medium.
I always go back to copy/paste the conversations that I paste here, so I'd know if any of them had blocked me. But it happens really rarely. I think Tessa just blocked me because she realised she was being silly and her ego couldn't cope.