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ince she was so popular on this platform, she wouldn’t bother to block anybody unless they were abusive or rude in their comments.I was curious.Wouldn’t you be, if somebody blocked you without a message or note explaining why?Did I write something she didn’t like? Was she offended by my response to one of her articles?I remembered commenting on a couple of her posts within the past month, so maybe that was it.Maybe I had inadvertently insulted her. So I scrolled back through my comments to see.One comment was in response to her article saying she had contracted Covid and she was worried about getting long Covid. She believed our country’s cavalier attitude towards Covid was an American thing.Here’s what I wrote in the comments:Oh no, Jessica! Get well soon, and I hope you don’t get long Covid. If it’s any comfort, my entire family and most of my friends have had it at this point (despite being vaccinated, boosted, etc.,) and no one developed long Covid.As far as this being an American thing, I just returned from traveling in Europe, and in the four countries we visited, people weren’t wearing masks or social distancing. They were carrying on as usual and the cafes were crowded. So it’s more of a worldwide response to resume living life as if Covid weren’t around.My o

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ther comment was in response to her advice to the new CEO of Medium. Here’s what I wrote:Excellent, Jessica! I landed on the platform the same time you did, in 2017 just before payment became a thing. And you’re so right on all counts. I hope the powers that be take your great advice.Obviously I wasn’t blocked until after I commented on these two articles, or I wouldn’t have been able to read them. So maybe it wasn’t one of my responses at all. Maybe she just doesn’t like my worldview and doesn’t want me reading her stuff. She has enough readers and followers without me.But I’m disappointed, because I like her and think she’s an interesting writer.I haven’t blocked people on this platform, even when they’ve called me “imbecile, idiot, deluded, stupid, or evil.” (Yes, I’ve been called all those things, usually after writing something religious).So why haven’t I blocked people who say things like this?For two reasons.Social media comments don’t bother me that much, and I figure if people feel that way about me they aren’t going to read my work, whether I block them or not. So why bother?But I guess everybody doesn’t see it that way. Maybe some people get stressed by writers with a different opinion, and feel they can only protect themselves from that stress by blocking the writer.</article></body>

Jessica Wildfire Blocked Me on Medium

Is it something I said, or something I believe?

This is what pops up when you’ve been blocked

When I first started writing on Medium in 2017, I read as many writers as I could. One of those early writers who is still on the platform is Jessica Wildfire. I enjoyed her essays, and she read and commented positively on a couple of mine.

Over the years, she gained tens of thousands of followers and began writing more political articles.

She and I probably have opposite worldviews, as I am a Christian and she’s not, and she leans to the far left politically, whereas I land somewhere in the middle.

But I enjoyed many of her essays. I find it thought-provoking to examine different viewpoints and worldviews, and I don’t like to stick with only those writers who believe the same things I believe.

This afternoon, not seeing her articles come up in my feed for a few days, I decided to go to her profile page and see what she’d written lately.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered she had blocked me.

I assumed with so many followers, Jessica wouldn’t pay much attention to those who were following her and reading her articles. I also assumed that since she was so popular on this platform, she wouldn’t bother to block anybody unless they were abusive or rude in their comments.

I was curious.

Wouldn’t you be, if somebody blocked you without a message or note explaining why?

Did I write something she didn’t like? Was she offended by my response to one of her articles?

I remembered commenting on a couple of her posts within the past month, so maybe that was it.

Maybe I had inadvertently insulted her. So I scrolled back through my comments to see.

One comment was in response to her article saying she had contracted Covid and she was worried about getting long Covid. She believed our country’s cavalier attitude towards Covid was an American thing.

Here’s what I wrote in the comments:

Oh no, Jessica! Get well soon, and I hope you don’t get long Covid. If it’s any comfort, my entire family and most of my friends have had it at this point (despite being vaccinated, boosted, etc.,) and no one developed long Covid.

As far as this being an American thing, I just returned from traveling in Europe, and in the four countries we visited, people weren’t wearing masks or social distancing. They were carrying on as usual and the cafes were crowded. So it’s more of a worldwide response to resume living life as if Covid weren’t around.

My other comment was in response to her advice to the new CEO of Medium. Here’s what I wrote:

Excellent, Jessica! I landed on the platform the same time you did, in 2017 just before payment became a thing. And you’re so right on all counts. I hope the powers that be take your great advice.

Obviously I wasn’t blocked until after I commented on these two articles, or I wouldn’t have been able to read them. So maybe it wasn’t one of my responses at all. Maybe she just doesn’t like my worldview and doesn’t want me reading her stuff. She has enough readers and followers without me.

But I’m disappointed, because I like her and think she’s an interesting writer.

I haven’t blocked people on this platform, even when they’ve called me “imbecile, idiot, deluded, stupid, or evil.” (Yes, I’ve been called all those things, usually after writing something religious).

So why haven’t I blocked people who say things like this?

For two reasons.

Social media comments don’t bother me that much, and I figure if people feel that way about me they aren’t going to read my work, whether I block them or not. So why bother?

But I guess everybody doesn’t see it that way. Maybe some people get stressed by writers with a different opinion, and feel they can only protect themselves from that stress by blocking the writer.