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Is there any concern that this could essentially be used to amplify certain viewpoints using brigades by essentially just true blocking everyone from an opposite point of view? Ordinarily, users do a pretty good job of downvoting and reporting violent comments or outright racism, but couldn't someone theoretically true block a lot of ordinary users and then write some kind of objectionable comment without being downvoted or even reported for it? Eventually there might be a report that moderators could take action against, but it would nevertheless still allow a comment to stay up for a while, in which case the damage would have been done, and it's also possible that no one is ever going to report a comment like that, which makes it a lot harder to effectively moderate.
Would it in any way impact this feature if people were still able to see the comments from the people that blocked them but were unable to interact with them? It seems like determined trolls who want to harass someone would hop on an alt anyways, but allowing all users to see the content would at least give some recourse to folks to report problematic content if need be.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/12/2021 at 22:51 UTC
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Comment by dooodaaad at 21/12/2021 at 00:26 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Maybe requiring the blocked user to have *some* interaction with the blocking user before being able to block them? A comment, a reply, a follow, a PM, anything.
Comment by BlankVerse at 03/01/2022 at 01:24 UTC*
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Even in small subs you'd still have to block hundreds of users.
Is there a limit to the number of users you can block?
And can reddit admins easy detect users blocking large numbers of users?
Comment by Bardfinn at 20/12/2021 at 23:00 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The balance in your scenario goes to the good faith users; If bad faith users go to the effort of True Blocking an entire swath of people they know - or reasonably suspect - will report their comments / posts, then they will have volunteered for Reddit admins their intentions, especially if those users are the kind of users with a long history of reporting sitewide rules violations.
Then it becomes the admins' responsibility to audit that data - not moderators'.
It also means that those of us who have made a career out of loudly and vocally advocating for reporting sitewide rules violations, no longer need to do so.
At any rate - automoderator and moderation bots catch a large amount of bad faith engagement in subreddits that are responsibly moderated, and given that the old ratios of "For every upvote and comment there are ten more people lurking" still holds true --
there'll still be a lot of people out there reporting violations, and bad faith actors can't block *every username*.
Comment by EndTimesRadio at 25/12/2021 at 11:14 UTC
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Oh god just go mask-off already and say you want to control what people say in places that aren't yours.