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SunWuKung420 posted...

This is how the block feature has always worked. And it allows users to harass others without the harassed seeing it and therefore they can't mark the harassing posts. I know because seaman does it all time. He has me blocked but is always posting lies about me.

This. It would be so easy to block someone like Mead then talk behind their backs and skirt the line to the point you're never moderated. One could easily sow discord over time where people wouldn't want to discuss anything with Mead due to false pretenses.

On topic what I find annoying about being blocked is that I still get a notification under "my posts" that there's a new post, only to go into the topic and see nothing. The design is built to purposefully annoy the blocked user as much as possible, which that alone could cause them to want to harass to "get even".

The easiest way to solve harassment is for moderators to do their jobs properly. The block feature is just a lazy way for them to be rid of issues without lifting a finger. Yeah, sometimes there's actual harassments, but shouldn't the mods deal with that? If a user is harassing someone they should be put in purgatory and then IP banned on a repeated offense.

The way the system is built now lets trolls do whatever they want blocking people just to maximize annoyance. At the very least blocking should be a request you bring up to moderators so that they can review whether it's block worthy or not.

Either way the moderators should be involved more, but the design is obviously built around them being involved less.

Edit: As for why I'm blocked I frequent a video game board of a game I love, so I talk about what I love about the game. People who don't like the game also post a lot there, and several of them have me blocked just because I love the game. That makes it really hard to read/post on that board and it's all because I love a game they hate. Why am I being punished for talking about a game I love on a gaming message board? I have no problem that they hate the game and that they post there, but why can't we just discuss the game like two adults instead of the haters blocking to maximize annoyance?