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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true. You could respond to someone on reddit and they could not respond back. People abused this to get the last word in arguments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean people who were blocked could still reply and they abused that attribute of the block system?

Or do you mean people could say, "Go fuck yourself." block and the blocked person couldn't reply?

...because I'll be honest that second one sounds exactly like what I want to be able to do.

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

I'm not sure which they are saying but the second one is how reddit worked. You can not reply to people who have blocked you but you can see their comments.

You can't even reply to someone else's reply to someone who has blocked you.

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

Got to tell you "they can't even see your posts if you block them (when logged in to that account)" would be preferable to me, but even what you describe would be better than what currently goes on here.

Currently as I say in the OP people can reply even if you block them and (the beginning of) those replies trigger notifications (but when you click on them you can't see the entire post.