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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
As pointed out by others already, this 'feature' is used by bad actors to spread misinformation uncontested.
Certain high-output health disinformation spammers (who seldomly interact in comments, but instead post in bulk to susceptible contrarian subreddits) preemtively block prolific debunkers/dissenters. Debunkers who often are already vastly outnumbered in many of these subreddits/echo chambers.
If your goal was to make the propagation of harmful lies easier you have succeeded.
Another major annoyance is that there is no indication of having been blocked *before* commenting, resulting in (often substantial) time wasted on a reply.
There's nothing here!