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View submission: Previewing Upcoming Changes to Blocking
Hey all! Thank you for the active conversations and feedback. We have heard your feedback regarding mass blocking, and will be putting additional protections in place to restrict users from manipulating the site or other users’ experiences via block. This has pushed out our expected launch date by ~ 2 weeks. We look forward to sharing more with you all soon.
Comment by MaximilianKohler at 18/01/2022 at 21:30 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Limitations on mass blocking comes nowhere near solving the myriad of problems with this.
There are accounts that go around spreading positive information about Monsanto, for example. It looks very convincing to the average person. There are very few people who know enough to potentially counter any of these types of users' claims. I know enough about one of the things they claimed to know that it was false. Thus, I don't believe any of their other claims. I said as much and shared the evidence.
There are a small amount of people who can do the same for the other claims they make. If that account simply blocks us handful of users they can spread their false information as much as they want.
There is another political sub I follow, and recently there is a single propaganda account taking it over completely. I've downvoted this account over a hundred times in a couple months, and I've made comments criticizing them. They could easily true block me and thus silence any critics.
Similarly, there are extremely corrupt, manipulative mods who post links/propaganda to numerous subs. This would give them censorship power in all those subs.
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This change will drastically worsen the misinformation and echo-chamber problems reddit already is drowning in. Reddit's already become a place where nothing can be trusted due to all kinds of heavy manipulation of content. This makes the existing problems so much worse.
This is either an incredibly poorly thought out change, or a horribly corrupt one that is basically giving special interest groups the ability to manipulate this site even more.
I am so appalled at what reddit has become.
Comment by Dr_Vesuvius at 04/02/2022 at 10:02 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
At /r/Gallifrey we have had an issue where two “power users” have essentially blocked everyone else. It seems people are still stumbling upon content they have submitted but then finding they can’t reply to it. This is causing people to resort to crossing discussion between submissions.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/01/2022 at 08:20 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This update is SO far overdue, I'm really happy with it
Comment by Lenins2ndCat at 24/01/2022 at 22:58 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hi potato.
Are you distinguishing between good and bad use of mass blocking? Or just treating it all the same?
For example, many LGBT people may want to blacklist members of certain anti-LGBT subreddits. This would be an example of mass blocking for a very good purpose, allowing them to essentially remove the ability for these people to ever leave them hate.
Would very much like an answer to this. Do not want to create a project that inadvertently results in getting good people banned.
Comment by JustNoYesNoYes at 27/01/2022 at 11:41 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I know you're not likely to respond to this however as you said that you pushed back the launch date by 2no weeks 3no weeks ago is there going to be a rollback of this feature given this post?
Because that's from *yesterday* and it seems that the blocking problem is only going to get worse and worse and worse the more that the malicious actors get used to it as a tool.