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Yes, but if you implemented it well enough, you could make your presence totally invisible to a blocked user, thus making it so they don't even *realize* they're being blocked by somebody, so they wouldn't think to log out to see you. Turn you from a *known unknown* to an *unknown unknown*, to use a Rumsfeldism. (Suck shit in hell, war criminal!)
Of course, it wouldn't work for somebody who *was* stalking you, since they would presumably know about you before you blocked them, and thus know you were still around even if they didn't see you; but it would be better than nothing for the random harassers, at least.
Comment by RedAero at 14/07/2021 at 22:38 UTC
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I don't really see the benefit of that, other than to give the sort of people who would ban people for participation in another sub (against reddit guidelines, mind you) yet another tool to basically wall themselves off from the wider world. It wouldn't prevent any actual harassment any more than the current block does exactly for the reasons you mentioned, all it'd be used for is basically a preeemptive block of everyone who commits the heinous crime of commenting in an ever-growing list of *verboten* subreddits and such. Without said blocked people knowing, of course - incidentally, a lot like subreddit bans which don't notify the user if the user hasn't commented in or submitted to the sub.