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Yes, blocking something you don't want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.
Not when that thing has dozens of communities for every little nuance a genre can have. For example:
Those moe are the worst because the majority are borderline loli.
I’m with you on this. That may not be the intent, but it sure as hell is the vibe they give off.
What "vibe"? The only descriptive words this person used are "worst" and "loli" and the obvious extrapolation there is a beyond serius accusation.
If you can acknowledge it's not the "intent", then why the fuck are you still "with" someone who seems to think that judging anime fans together with the absolute worst of humanity, is anywhere close to reasonable?
I absolutely didn’t acknowledge that it isn’t the intent, I said it may not be.
I absolutely think that is the intent and I find those communities to be gross and have them all blocked.
You are so weirdly defensive about it. Almost like you know a lot of people find it highly questionable and they may have a point. If you think every anime fan is into that crap, you are very sorely mistaken, and if you don’t, you are using inapplicable generalizations to make a point and that’s just deceptive.
I know it's an unfortunate reality for anime fans to be lumped in with pedos, and I shut it down the best I can wherever I find it. How the fuck did you get to an interpretation where I'm perpetrating that kind of thinking?
How can you hold those two views simultaneously? Those communities aren't small, are you saying their entire userbases are the worst of the worst?
What? If you think this, you're wrong, if you don't, you're also wrong? Which is it?
Are you saying that I'm pushing the idea that NONE of them are pedos, as if I'm ignoring the probability that at least some of them are?
And it's hardly "wierdly defensive" of me to speak up when I probably created most of the communities you're shitting on.
And as that creator, I can straight up tell you, it's not the "intent".