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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
Lets start with the most important thing
This is a big improvement and an important step towards letting people get out of targeted harassment
This is actually a block instead of whatever Reddit had implemented before that let someone continue interacting with your content without you knowing. The last update to make it so blocked users were just collapsed was real bad, it made it impossible to block harassers
Is it perfect? No, but you seem to have constructed a bunch of corner case strawmen while ignoring that yeah, there fundamentally has to be asymmetric knowledge since the *goal* of blocking users is to create asymmetric knowledge. Its not a bug, its a feature.
And this feature finally has the capability to do what it was supposed to be doing for years
I could go around spreading lies about a user and the user would never be able to know or respond.
Ya know, until someone not blocked tags them in a response, then they can just hop to incognito and see the comments or use something like ceddit. Relatively unlikely, and trivial for a user to find. Next!
I could also go around spreading lies in general and then block the select people with the knowledge and time to debunk me.
You can go around doing that anyway. It takes more effort to debunk a conspiracy than to spread one so this is a losing game even if they can try to follow you around and attempt to debunk it. Not a novel issue, will always be a problem, but this does resolve the people who go around "debunking" "lies" aka just harassing people for their agenda.
It enables power users who submit a lot of content to basically become mods of a ton of different subs themselves. They can/will now block anyone who says anything they don't like. Very soon there will be zero disagreement on reddit. Any time anyone says anything there will only be people agreeing with them.
Wut? They could just create their own subs and be mods that way, its less work than trying to ban huge swaths of users. They were also making it so mods could see all content in their subs
It enables bad actors to completely privatize their actions/behavior in ways I don't even want to mention since I don't want to help them do it.
Mmmm yes, there will be nefarious actors doing unspeakable nefarious things! See the second point above, its impossible to debunk this even if I had time
Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2022 at 17:32 UTC
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This is actually a block instead of whatever Reddit had implemented before that let someone continue interacting with your content without you knowing
that's the feature I miss actually. I don't care what people call it but I still want that back. The goal was for me to not read their drivel, not necessarily punish them for posting it. Out of sight, out of mind. If others find it engaging to interact with, so be it. To each their own.
the collapse thing ruined the whole point of that for me. Now I know in some collapsed thread "this person is saying stupid shit. don't open it but you know you are curious". it's both in sight and mind now
Comment by MaximilianKohler at 18/01/2022 at 22:21 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wut? They could just create their own subs and be mods that way, its less work than trying to ban huge swaths of users. They were also making it so mods could see all content in their subs
You didn't understand the point. Try re-reading it.
Creating and growing your own subs of major topics is almost never viable. 99% of alternative subs go nowhere.