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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
Most responses so far would have a sub-reddit block work in a global fashion, ie eliminate from /r/all, /r/popular, searches, suggestions, etc. Not sure how one would block cross-posts when linked within comments, but it looks like there is demand for that, too.
What I haven't seen yet is incorporating blocked subreddits into the ranking algorithms and suggestion engine. A highly popular subreddit that also has a high number of people blocking it (just think of your political foe for examples) will naturally have fewer aggregate downvotes than a less frequently blocked sub simply because there are fewer users who would downvote it's content. If the block ratio on a sub doesn't already negatively influence the system's reputation of that sub then it really should. IMHO a block is analogous to a super-downvote, which is valuable data to mine in the opposite way that subscribing to a sub is a super-upvote.
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