I commonly browse all by new, and I block users who crosspost any given article to more than one other community. To me it’s almost always a sign that they actually don’t care about the topic or contents, but instead their own post count and user recognition.
So, serious question:
There’s a group “Progressive Metal”.
There’s another group “Music”.
I post things to both, but almost all the time when I post to the former I cross-post to the latter because all progressive metal is music (and thus topical) but not vice versa.
Do I get blocked?
Eh, meh, like I’d have to see it. The way you’re explaining it, I probably wouldn’t block. Again, because it seems like you’re trying to enrich communities that mean a damn to you. If you were just flinging shit to be the king of shit, who broke the news of the shit first… yeah, I’d block.
For me, you are. Imagine thematic communities in a tree-like chart: there’s the Entertainment community, there’s the Music community, and there are the communities by subgenres, music memes community, artists’ pains and struggles community. The narrow topic should belong to the farthest branch of this tree, IMO. The higher-level communities (wider themes) should only get posts that do not meet any of the lower-level (narrower themes). The narrow community should form as soon as the high-level one gets regular posts of enough quantity to form one (subjectively).
This stance would make sense if groups were in any way tree-structured.
They aren’t.
The two groups I mentioned above are (I think) on entirely different instances. (If they aren’t, they could be.) There’s no hierarchy.
You are right. I am, as always, idealizing.