Daniel · 14 answers · 3y

I think we need a blocking people feature on retrospring. What do you say?

Yes, but I think that all the users that need to be blocked are the the kind of users who will just send 80 public questions about how so-and-so blocked them. Which anyone who has blocked them will be seeing, because there will be people who they follow that still regularly respond to their bullshit. Then they're still pulling focus. It's not much of a break from them, and it's just as (un)successful to ignore them imo.

Redoing my answer.

I don't like it for two reasons.
1. I'd have to worry all the time about whether this or that person has blocked me..
2. People blocking each other left and right means less activity in general, which means (a) less for me to read, and (b) less personal growth for all involved. Liberally blocking and ignoring people online is not very far off from denialism.

It would be nice but I doubt I'd use it. I learned not to be too bothered by what people say online. Though, on rare occasions I blocked some users on Twitter mainly because I was tired of seeing their propaganda tweets lying around my feed.

I'm not really in the mood to boss the mod's and admin's around. They don't get enough gratitude for hosting and maintaining a site for free while they study and try to make something of their lives.

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