Request for netiquette advice

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Among my f-list there is a particularly nice and charming person, whom I do not know all that well, but whose posts I enjoy. Just recently, two people whom I detest and whom I barred and blasted from my LJ in two separate incidents for very good reason have turned up on her f-list and started posting fairly frequently. These are people I would cross the road to avoid. I am seriously wondering whether it would not be better for me to de-friend this person, not for any personal reason, but because I do not want to share any space with certain other individuals. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Comments

[lyssiae.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that there's an established netiquette for this. But as for what I would do:

continue reading your friend's posts; examine very, very carefully whether the comment you want to make should really be made. Will it help anyone (especially, will it help the OP?), constructively, or is it simply a mouthpiece for your opinion? Is it constructive to the discussion? Will it raise a new point that hasn't already been brought up?

As regards any comments directed towards you from the two people you think less of, ignore them. Hopefully they will decide not to taunt or goad you, and a more constrained commenting policy from you will not provoke them. If a situation does arise where they demand a response from you, send a quiet, calm email to the OP, explaining why you are not responding to them. You owe no-one but her an explanation for your behaviour on her LJ.