Seriously what's that idea?
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Well yes, that's what I tell my kids, but they could write anything and I couldn't check it...
Ahh, I see the problem.
Blocking here is just ignoring people you don't agree with, what you're looking for is a way to punish them for not agreeing.
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That's unfair. It's rather fair they don't see me, I blocked them for a reason.
You get to control your own experience, not their experience.
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Ahh, I see the problem.
Blocking here is just ignoring people you don't agree with, what you're looking for is a way to punish them for not agreeing.
Got me in the first half, but no, I want them to leave me alone. That's what ignore should be all about.
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The only way to do that in a federated system would be to effectively make blocks public. That has its own disadvantages.
Sorry I'm a nurse, explain it to me like I'm five years old.
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Would you rather make your blocklists public?
No everybody deals with anybody in a different way.
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Sorry I'm a nurse, explain it to me like I'm five years old.
It's hard to control which Information other people get in a system where many servers share information like posts and comments. Think of it as throwing your post on a public wall. Everyone that walks by will be able to see it.
It's (relatively) easy to control what information you want to see. Or at least information from which sources you want to see, or not see.
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Sorry I'm a nurse, explain it to me like I'm five years old.
Since each instance is its own 'website' that shares content with each other, your block would need to be publicly available so that every other site can see it and implement it.
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As a point of reference, on Bluesky, it appears that if you're blocked, you cannot see the account that blocked you. Essentially they just disappeared. They've not visible in search either.
So, unless you create another account, they ceased to exist.
Just to be clear, as far as I can tell, this invisibility is mutual as soon as one account blocks the other.
wrote last edited by [email protected]They can see, and they can comment, want screenshots?
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Ahh, I see the problem.
Blocking here is just ignoring people you don't agree with, what you're looking for is a way to punish them for not agreeing.
*I've been blocked by Rhynoplaz, but I can still comment shit about them and they've got no way to know*
Hey, Rhynoplaz is a dogfucker and admits to it here: https://legit-site.url/bullshit.
See what I just did there? That is the problem.
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So I have to unblock and permanently have to be a reporter in hope something changes?
Tbh that would triple the work for admins...
Why do you need to see what this person is saying after you've blocked them?
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Why do you need to see what this person is saying after you've blocked them?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Good question...
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They can see, and they can comment, want screenshots?
Who can see?
My observation was based on personal experience after noticing that an account blocked me.
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Since each instance is its own 'website' that shares content with each other, your block would need to be publicly available so that every other site can see it and implement it.
Thanks
Final conclusion, no offence:
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Got me in the first half, but no, I want them to leave me alone. That's what ignore should be all about.
But they are leaving you alone. You can't see their comment if you blocked them. They could be screaming like a monkey with rabies and you'll never notice.
If the idea that they can still comment bothers you, then you indeed want to punish them, rather than just ignore them.
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They shouldn't be able to do that!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think the way it works is good.
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If the blocked user browses on another account (or not logged in at all), they can’t tell that you have blocked them.
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Bot/spam accounts can’t use the blocking system to stop users who target these accounts to call them out on their disguised malicious behavior. This became a problem on Reddit when they changed their blocking system away from what we have here.
Edit: I guess there is a downside of if so many of the sane users block the same nutjobs, then there won’t be anybody to downvote or refute those nutjobs
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But they are leaving you alone. You can't see their comment if you blocked them. They could be screaming like a monkey with rabies and you'll never notice.
If the idea that they can still comment bothers you, then you indeed want to punish them, rather than just ignore them.
But they are leaving you alone
But they're really not though, if they're commenting on your post, whether or not you can see it
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Ahh, I see the problem.
Blocking here is just ignoring people you don't agree with, what you're looking for is a way to punish them for not agreeing.
No, there's enough nonsense going on, too many idiots and even more bots, it's not punishment, there's no way to have a conversation with people who don't engage in any way that is productive, it's a waste of my time
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But they are leaving you alone. You can't see their comment if you blocked them. They could be screaming like a monkey with rabies and you'll never notice.
If the idea that they can still comment bothers you, then you indeed want to punish them, rather than just ignore them.
Yes, they blocked me, and I'm calling them a nanner-head for all of you to see. But they don't know they've been called a nanner-head behind their back, so they've been left alone. Now they only know they're being called a nanner-head on the internet if someone shows them a screenshot. Being called a nanner-head behind their back on the public internet is not likely to affect them in real life, so what's the harm?
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No everybody deals with anybody in a different way.
There's literally no way in a federated environment to prevent blocked accounts from interacting with your posts without making your blocked accounts list public
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But they are leaving you alone. You can't see their comment if you blocked them. They could be screaming like a monkey with rabies and you'll never notice.
If the idea that they can still comment bothers you, then you indeed want to punish them, rather than just ignore them.
But they can still mock you without you witnessing.
