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View submission: Previewing Upcoming Changes to Blocking
I’m on a fence about this, one hand it’s a good feature to protect users but on the other hand it can be easily abused. Spam is prominent on Reddit, with tshirt bots flooding subreddits posting to scam websites. What can be done from them taking notice of the users calling them out and blocking them so more people can fall for it?
Blocking could also lead to distrust? (Don’t know what to call it) Where someone could block people who disagree with them, and in future post would appear to have less opposition.
A fix for this would be able to see posts from comments from a person who blocked you in the wild, (comments could be collapsed) but clicking on the profile would lead to an error.
Also getting around a block on most platforms is incredibly easy, making a new Reddit account can take 30 seconds so if someone really wanted to harass you, they could.
There's nothing here!