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Is Blocking Ever Going To Block? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently users you block can still see your posts, reply to those posts, and trigger notifications when they do reply.

You can read the beginning of messages people you have blocked in your notifications tab, but have to unblock users to see the rest of what everyone else reading the replies to your post can see.

A "blocking" feature that is only inconvenient to the blocker is worse than no blocking feature at all, equivalent to trying to escape a fistfight by turning invisible but actually just closing your eyes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So you want to forbid people to speak to other people because you say so? That's really selfish, to say the least

If you want to maintain private conversations, use private messages. The rest is public

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I want to forbid people to speak to me or take part in my conversations because I say so.

I, selfishly, do not wish to be harassed or have my conversations derailed by bad actors.

If people are free to make their own threads and own claims, why do they need "the right" to butt into and derail mine?

If you want to maintain private conversations, use private messages. The rest is public

It doesn't have to be. There is no reason I should not be able to speak to "everyone accept for people I designate" (Tom).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I want to forbid people to speak to me

Well, block that people. Currently blocking is working as intended (except for the already mentioned notifications that is either a bug or an overlook). You block them and they can speak to you. The End

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they can still see what I post, then blocking is not working as optimally as it could.

(And since their replies—that they should not be able to make—still show up in my notifications, then it isn't even working the way you say it does.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If they can still see what I post, then blocking is not working as optimally as it could.

Blocking ends the harassement. Is working as optimally as it can. If you are screaming in a public space (because that's what a forum is, every body can enter and take a look) people around you will hear you, like it or not.

If you do not like how forums work, don't use forums. Is the best advice I can give you

still show up in my notifications,

Yeah already said that in the previous comment

(except for the already mentioned notifications that is either a bug or an overlook).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you do not like how forums work, don't use forums. Is the best advice I can give you

That is shitty advice. Better advice would be, "Post in the magazine specifically dedicated to suggesting improvements to UE and suggest a better way the site could work."