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View submission: Previewing Upcoming Changes to Blocking
One potential avenue of abuse I've seen brought up before is using this to hide harassment, to reduce the likelihood it gets reported; e.g., what happens if, say, Bob leaves nasty comments on a bunch of Alice's posts, then Bob blocks Alice? Will Bob's comments be removed from view of only Alice but still visible to everyone else, or is the system smart enough to remove/hide from everyone any comments an individual has made in reply to a user they later block so as to prevent this type of abuse?
Comment by enthusiastic-potato at 20/12/2021 at 23:27 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Thank you for bringing this up! Our aim is to make sure that Alice can see and report content that is responding to them. In the current form, there may be times in which blocking can be weaponized and hearing feedback and edge cases from you is really important and appreciated.
Comment by bungiefan_AK at 27/01/2022 at 16:31 UTC
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Bob blocks Alice, trudy replies to Alice, Bob replies to trudy and Alice can no longer reply to further replies from trudy in the chain, as it currently works.