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View submission: Safety update on Reddit’s follow feature
This is one of the issues that we'll be digging into with the block feature update later this year. We'll share more as soon as we can.
Comment by caza-dore at 14/07/2021 at 22:18 UTC
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Users seem to be advocating such that User A blocking User B would prevent User B from seeing content posted by User A.
As a mod Id like to just say I would pretty strongly oppose that sort of change to the block feature. In its worst case implementation it would mean rule breaking users would simply have to block moderators in order to keep their content from being seen and moderated. And even should exemptions be made so that mods cant be blocked from seeing content on subs they moderate, being able to view user behavior on other subs is also crucial to doing our jobs effectively. Seeing if a new account sharing a twitch/youtube/etc link on our sub is also posting that link in 20 other subs is valuable information. Being able to view related posts to communities like Subredditdrama or other subs that often result in brigading is vital to maintaining the health of our communities. A simple block allowing bad actors to blind moderators to that kind of behavior sitewide would have a significant negative impact.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/07/2021 at 19:15 UTC
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i'd like to make a suggestion, if it can be implemented. can you make blocked user's comments and posts still show up in the mod queue and report queue? ty
Comment by [deleted] at 14/07/2021 at 19:38 UTC
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Comment by Uristqwerty at 14/07/2021 at 23:54 UTC
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Giving self-service moderation power to spammers and abusers? Sounds dangerous, and an idea from the user-centric realm of twitter and other sites, where you are posting every (non-direct) message to your own profile feed, and the site then weaves replies together into threads. Leaving a message out of the reply-tapestry is insignificant there, because you *are* the moderator of your own profile, but in a forum hierarchy where only some users are community moderators and need to rely on reports, it's an easily-abused feature.
Comment by rhaksw at 15/07/2021 at 03:05 UTC
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It sounds like viewing user pages in the future may require a logged in account, i.e. one that uses password flow[1].
1: https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/authentication.html#password-flow
If that's the case would you please announce it before implementing? Devs may need time to adjust. Thank you!