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Blocking and Downvote Stalking (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Should blocking a user still allow them to vote on your posts? I'd rather have nothing to do with particular users, and it seems that they continue to show up in the activity for every single post I make around kbin.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You block someone when you don't want to see their stuff anymore. It shouldn't have any effect on whether they can see or interact with your comments and the rest of the community. If they are block-worthy, other users can block them too.

You shouldn't really care about what they have to say after you've blocked them. If others see you never engaging with them, they should get a clear picture that you don't deem a reply necessary. If you're really concerned with rebutting everything they have to write about you or your ideas, then the correct course of behavior is not to block them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except up and down voting has implications for whether or stuff is visible in certain sorting algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Could it be made that a blocked person's votes simply have no effect on the posts of people that blocked them? (ie from the blocked persons end it looks like they downvoted the person but the actually didn't.)

Also, by hiding everything from the blocked person you also run the risk of the blocked person finding out they were blocked, which is not exactly a good thing either; they could have an alt and easily see the person's content and harass them that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blocking someone means that you don't want to interact with them anymore and making all of your content invisible to them is a pretty surefire way of doing that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but making them invisible to you accomplishes the same thing and is preferable, IMO. It doesn't change what they can do. Keep in mind blocking, which can be done by any user for any reason at all, is not the same as banning, which is restricted to a smaller set of people with more power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I guess if they're constantly harassing you under your threads/microbologs/comments you can just report them and get them banned.