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Blocked user content shows up deleted? Thats not very transparent.
It should really show up with “[blocked]” instead.
Comment by TSM- at 21/12/2021 at 21:20 UTC
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The problem here (and I suspect why 'true blocking' took so long) is that when someone gets notified that they are blocked this gets aggro
1. They want to find out who blocked them so they'll just open up in incognito to see the username
2. It signals that they will react to future harassment
Being stealth blocked (the old system) makes it so that the blocked person has no idea if the blocker just doesn't care about whatever they say and is ignoring them versus really does care and has hidden the content. That quickly makes it unrewarding to continue to harass the person or evade a block (if they even ARE blocked).
It's a tough system to fine tune though.