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View submission: Previewing Upcoming Changes to Blocking
When viewing the profile of someone who has blocked you, their page will appear as inaccessible.
Does this mean you will be notified that they have blocked you, or will it appear like the profile doesn't exist?
Since you discussed how addressing user profiles was a difficult decision to make, it sounds like you have already anticipated this will be controversial among moderators.
This effectively allows a user to block all of the moderators of a subreddit, that way they can participate without the moderators being able to see their profile history. For example, it could make it harder to identify spam accounts when you're limited to only viewing their history in your subreddit.
My concern is that it doesn't actually stop anyone from viewing their profile - because we could just open it in incognito. It doesn't make much sense to block people from viewing a profile that's inherently public. It's just making it harder and adding an extra step for moderators to get that kind of information.
It does make sense to prevent people they've blocked from interacting with any of their posts or comments, sending PM's, etc. - but I'm just not seeing what effect blocking the profile has when it's a public profile. If a blocked user can't interact with the profile anyway, what is the harm in being able to see it? Since they can just see it anyway if they want to.
So are there any plans in the future to expand user privacy controls where they can set their profile to private or visible only to trusted users? That's the only scenario in which I could imagine this would be needed, to align with those future changes. Otherwise, it's just a red herring for users that have been blocked, not something that has any practical effect on preventing harassment.
Comment by bungiefan_AK at 27/01/2022 at 16:33 UTC
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It appears that they don't exist, unless they have posts on subs you moderate. Pretty much the same as a shadowban, except shadowban always blocks even posts on your sub in their profile.