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That's only for when you've blocked someone; not when you've been blocked. So I don't think that's relevant to any of my points.
Comment by semi-confusticated at 18/01/2022 at 23:09 UTC
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My point is that it may be possible to fight block button abuse by engaging in a little block button abuse of your own first. **This is not a good solution**, and, as you pointed out, it may not work very well anyway.
I just thought it was interesting that a feature designed to prevent abuse and harassment could require good-faith users to engage in abuse and harassment themselves in order to fight abuse of that very same feature. It's not a good situation to be in