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Blocking a user behaves more like mute. Proper blocking needed to prevent harassment. (slrpnk.net)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All the more reason to rename the function from block to mute so that users don't get a false sense of security.