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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
This is already being used on /r/Scotland by prominent users to block people from replying in their threads because their political opinions differ (People who support independence, versus those that don't).
Fucking ludicrous feature to add.
Now power users can essentially ban people from their threads, and ban dissenting opinion. How did you not see that this would be weaponised for political gain? Moronic.
Comment by __-___--- at 04/02/2022 at 04:57 UTC
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I think they did and that it is the point. Echo chambers work well for social medias. They're only terrible for real life societies who can't escape problems by ignoring them.
Comment by rolmos at 24/01/2022 at 10:16 UTC
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/r/SPainPolitics mod here. We're also concerned with how this has started affecting political debate. The first poster on a specific topic can now silence users they choose to exclude for ideological reasons.
Comment by [deleted] at 23/01/2022 at 16:37 UTC
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I was about to say the same thing on here - there are a small group of politically aligned users on that sub who post a disproportionately high amount of political content and have effectively bypassed the mods to block other people from contributing on those subjects.
Although I'm sure it has been implemented with the best of intentions it's a feature that is very easy to exploit maliciously and will likely make the issue of people living in bubbles and being driven to extreme viewpoints through fake news even worse.
The only way I can see this feature being compatible with Reddit in the long term is to limit the amount that individual users can contribute to a particular sub to prevent them from being able to flood a sub with political content after blocking everyone that might criticise it or express a dissenting viewpoint.