Not just you , I also don't like the idea that to not see someone on the site I have to put my name on a list on their account. It feels petty, instead of quiet and inobstrusive.
No support. For all the stated reasons. Subeta makes it very, very clear that if someone has you blocked then you are not to contact them in any way, and it's a huge mark against your account if you do. And the only way to ensure that you are aware that you're not allowed to contact someone in any roundabout way is to provide that list. Subeta is covering it's ass with it, so you can't use the excuse of 'well I didn't know I was blocked when I sent 5 friends to harass them about why I couldn't send a comment'.
If they're blocked, they can't interact with you. Subeta isn't responsible for how people act outside of their website, so if people are using other sites to try to contact you then the onus is on you to block them on those sites as well.
I can definitely see both sides here. I've never blocked anybody myself, cause it feels too...yeah, petty. But with the site's rules about no contact, I'm with the others who say the list needs to stay.
I'm gonna give a hard no on the suggestion of automatic mutual blocking, but I'd totally support a mute option. There's a few users that annoy me enough I'd like to not read their posts, but not enough to make it personal and block them.
I support doing away with the "users who have blocked you" list. I'm really not comfortable with the fact that people can see that I've blocked them, because as others have pointed out, it could cause drama offsite. Right now I'm anxious that somebody is going to do something because they saw that I blocked them, so they blocked me back. It just feels really invasive.
And I agree that it shouldn't be the responsibility of the user to not accidentally interact with someone who has blocked you. I'm not sure if things have been implemented since this thread was last talked in, because I don't see threads from certain people but my boyfriend can see them, so at least that seems taken care of. I'm unsure of other things, like how sMail or gifting work because I don't want to risk getting in trouble/starting drama just to experiment.
Personally I don't care for the muting idea, because if I block someone I've done it for a good reason so I don't want to interact with them whatsoever, but I can see how other people might find it useful.