What makes this worse is the obvious disrespect from Cowbee of my request to disengage. I made it very clear I didn’t want to argue. These communities have absolutely no standards of behaviour for members of the in-group. Which is exactly why I don’t engage with them in these communities.
Well, also the fact that I hate being constantly called a liberal for not repeating Capitalist Putin’s latest botfarm talking point. Talking to these people is an exercise in keeping my calm while I am constantly insulted. No thank you.
Ignoring the points of the argument, you have to tell them to “disengage” with nothing else posted in your comment to them. I have a troll following me around every time I talk about a certain topic and the only way to get them to stop (for a brief moment) is to say “disengage.” I’ve made it clear I don’t want to talk to them anymore, multiple times, but still I have to type “disengage” every time they reply to me the same exact bad faith shit they always say.
If you don’t want to deal with them altogether, you have to consider blocking them. The troll I’ve been dealing with has tried to egg me and others into blocking them, they celebrate each time they get blocked. So I also understand if you don’t want to block them, they are miserable people who enjoy feeding on negativity. The fact trolls roam lemmy can dampen your enjoyment, it really does suck.
To elaborate: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/divisions-by-zero/the-disengage-rule
Interesting. What’s the value of an explicit “disengage” compared to just not replying?
Well for one: silence isn’t disengaging sometimes, so they may keep replying.
Sometimes you’d want to add extra context before you disengage too; for this we will take action against people who break the rule (on our instance)
You can’t say “Disengage! Also you’re stupid.” as some “last word own”. If that is said then they’ll have to deal the consequences; we won’t do anything abt it.