I had to block a few users yesterday. Today, I noticed about ten notifications from users I’ve blocked—they replied to me, continued to make up lies about my heritage, and I continued to see their comments in my notifications.

It seems that the only effect of my blocking them is that I can no longer see their comments in context—although I am still notified of their harassment. This is quite the opposite effect from the one I was going for—I mean, I’m happy to spend less time engaging with them, but the block feature seems to be guaranteeing these bigots the “last word” and preventing me from even reporting them. They can then follow me anywhere on kbin and continue to harass me, the block function is only stopping me from doing anything about it.

At least one of these users is on the same instance as I am, kbin.social.

Why doesn’t blocking work?

  • danhakimi@kbin.socialOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    To clarify, a few years ago, the blocked user could not see the message either. The logic behind the change was, “you can just log out and see it anyway, so what’s the difference?” Most people spend most of their time logged in. The difference is significant.

    • Pamasich@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe there’s been another change. In the original system I meant, blocking was one-sided only.

      To quote Reddit themselves:

      We will be evolving the blocking experience so that it not only removes a blocked user’s content from your experience, but also removes your content from their experience—i.e., a user you have blocked can’t see or interact with you.

      Previously, if I blocked u/IAmABlockedUser, I would not see their content, but they would see mine. With the updated blocking experience, I won’t see u/IAmABlockedUser’s content and they won’t see mine either.

      Like I’ve said in the other comment, not entirely sure on whether replying was possible since I’ve never been blocked myself.

      To clarify, a few years ago, the blocked user could not see the message either.

      But this is definitely false.