Have never understood the mindset that blocking someone was somehow cowardly, or contemptible, or against the rules. Nobody signed a contract they had to put up with stupid people's shit on a social app.
Also super not clear that many are even real people. There's a huge number of sockpuppets and bots out there trolling, trying to create division, and running scams and disinformation campaigns. Block, block, block, I say.
I’ve encountered it so many times and it’s almost always the same thing:
1. Extremely rude/vulgar post insulting me directly
2. I block
3. They post a pearl clutching “I guess this Princeton professor isn’t interested in being challenged by different views!”