I know you think I'm ruining this place for you. Let me offer some solutions that work better than telling me how, or about what topics, I should post (which works very poorly):
- Don't follow me
- Mute me
- Block me
These also work if you replace "me" with any other accounts you find irritating or uninteresting.
If these fail, you can always complain to my dean, who definitely wants to hear your thoughts about how faculty use social media.
That's George Mason University. Operators are standing by.
Another weird complaint I frequently get here (in addition to not using enough hashtags, failing to content warn about ordinary, innocuous comments, and posting insufficiently chromatic art) is that I have too many followers.
This is cited as evidence that I must be some kind of parasitic Mastodon billionaire, cavalierly flying around social media on my private Internet jet using up followers that needier users should have instead.
I’m serious. I don’t get it either.
@mattblaze I’ll have you know had to unfollow an unnatural number* of other, lesser accounts just to follow you! ;)
(Zero is, according to many sources, not one of the Natural Numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number )
@mattblaze Man you get your fair(?) share of nonsense…
I'm sorry this stuff is happening to you.
Glad you're still not fed up with the bunch here, I really like what you share with us.
@mattblaze “Mastodon Billionaire” is pretty hilarious, actually.
If you’re the kind of person who thinks that followers = status, I can see insecure people trying to gain status by going after a high-status person. The practice is as old as primates.
@mattblaze I've been waiting to unleash my righteous indignation upon you!
- You don't post quite enough radars/radar sites. This is my personal interest, and I wish you'd do a better job catering to it 😤
- Your posts are too informative, beautiful (photos), and interesting, which causes me to pause my quick-scrolling through the feed and actually learn things at times. Very inconvenient, and quite presumptive of you to assume I want to see thought-provoking content.
@mattblaze Seriously, though, please keep on sharing the things that interest you. And your gorgeous photos.
Many of us really love seeing what you share and learning tidbits that we'd likely never see elsewhere ❤️
Hey, you told me to complain to Sam Houston Institute for Technology.
I guess you transferred, congrats!
@mattblaze I wonder if trolling the dean qualifies you as a faculty at George Mason University too.
If they won't start sending you paychecks, I'd ask at least for a joint appointment 😜
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