Isn't the purpose of blocking someone so they can't see you?

Also, if someone blocks me and I can see it, it'll bother me because I'll want to know why. I'd rather just not know.

The blocking system on here is a joke in ways as it is: I can block someone but see the threads they make, see their shops, etc, until I click on said fill in the blank and "Oh no! You have this user blocked!"

I want a one and done and the user is invisible to me entirely.

[edit]Bad day, worded myself terribly.

I'm not sure what you are Suggesting here. Blocking may feel like a punishment to you, but that's not what it's for.

Under Personal - Friends - Block List you always can see who you have Blocked and who has Blocked you. The reason you need to know this is because aiding and abetting someone to contact someone else who doesn't wanna: this is also a breaking of the Rules. This feature should not be disabled, and I do not support it being disabled.

Usually if you've blocked someone you can't see their Topics, and you only see that they exist at all if they've replied to a Topic in the front page of the Forums and the recently posted page. In the thread itself, they are invisible. So you have to go out of your way to see someone you have Blocked and most of the time you won't even know that you have been Blocked.

FWIW, I block people for trivial reasons sometimes, like they talk too much, or never say anything that's interesting to me (even though lots of other users may speak to them), or seldom have anything kind to say. There's 7.5 gigapeople in the world and this is the internet, maybe don't worry so much?

tbh I'd rather know who blocked me so that I can block them back and we can both go on our merry way.

If I don't know who blocked me, I might end up trying to talk to them, gift them with a giftbox, or getting a friend to ask why they're ignoring my offers on trades and such, which is a big nono according to the rules.

So yeah. I'd rather know that they blocked me instead of getting into shit.

If anything, I'd possibly like a mute option alongside the block. So for example, you can mute someone and not see their posts on the forums (hidden by a spoiler by default - "Post by USERNAME is hidden because you have muted this user.", you can expand it if you want). They won't know you muted them, but they can still comment, mail and do all that other social goodstuff with you.

I like seeing who blocked me so I can block them back, why should I be able to see what they say if they won't see what I say? Also, I don't usually block anyone else unless they say something hurtful or rude. It would be nice if it worked both ways automatically, where blocking someone means they won't see anything you say either.

No support at all. The reasons why you can see who blocked you are clearly listed above, so I won’t repeat them, but this is a very useful feature to avoid possible warnings many would get unknowingly. A while back you’d get a notification if someone blocked you, at least now it’s just a list.

Yeah, you really have to you out of your way to access the list of people who have you blocked, so that's not much of a problem.

Just...pretend the list doesn't exist? It's located in such a awkward place that it's not hard to ignore.

I agree that it's ridiculous to have this list. It is not the standard in most other sites and for a reason; blocking should totally erase someone from your radar. Having a list of people there only incites more drama.

If it is still possible to accidentally contact someone who has you blocked, the site is failing at actually blocking that person and even further it's a failure of the system to make that the fault of either of the users involved!

We should not have to memorize a list of those who have us blocked to avoid getting in trouble on the site!

The site should properly avoid giftboxing, trade offers etc if someone has blocked the other person. If the scenarios above are actually a thing that can happen then the site needs to update its block system.

For what it's worth, I can't even look at the profile of someone who's blocked me, so (assuming that same kind of block is in place for forms of contact that aren't allowed) I don't know that a viewable list is necessary.

There are definitely good reasons not to automatically make blocking go both ways though (like reference threads for holidays, price check threads, etc. that you wouldn't be able to see if the OP blocked you, and that's not really fair)

Also, the list in way provides a "legal" basis to justify any consequences that follow if the person continues to be disturbed (even though you probably will never know them or or why they blocked you)

But as mentioned, Subeta doesn't send these events like they used to. While users don't like to see these events, this is actually problematic because you don't automatically block them back. So you might not know they are on the list the next minute, and yet you can possibly interact with them, potentially getting a warning.

I've found that blocking a user doesn't stop you from doing event actions to them. There was one time where I used the random trick-or-treat option during Morostide, and it went to someone I'd blocked. I deleted the item I got (I already had one anyway). Maybe blocking should stop you from doing things like that to them as well.

I'm a little surprised blocking doesn't keep you from interacting with anything of someone besides their profile? I really think Subeta needs to fix its system in that case so you literally can't interact with someone at all if you're blocked and vice versa. That's what literally every other place does so I'm not sure why thing are the way they are here besides it maybe being part of an older system.

I can't help but agree with . Honestly, there's a couple people I would block in a heartbeat, primarily because they make me incredibly uncomfortable and I'd rather not interact with them, but they're also the type to instigate drama, so the idea of them being able to see that I specifically blocked them gives me a lot of anxiety about the possible "social consequences."

But maybe that's just me?

I would only be fine with not seeing who blocked me if it went both ways and automatically blocked them back, like on some other websites.

it isnt just you, theres are a lot of people who i'd block but again, would feel like theyd bring drama off site or get friends to gang up on me, as i've seen this done before... and with subeta discords being prevalent, it'd be very easy. so sadly i need to just read their filth.

Oof, sorry you're dealing with that, that blows. 😬 That's part of the reason why I suggested a mute feature for the forums and other "open" areas like news comments would be useful. Then you can simply hide the people you really don't want to see, but they don't know you muted them. Your own Subeta experience is better for it and if they absolutely need something from you (like commenting to ask about an item they wanna buy), they can still do it. And if you're really curious (or if they posted something actually important and good), you can expand the muted post, then minimize it again without unmuting them. If it's even possible coding-wise, that is.

Sorry, no. I don't want to give someone else the ability to control what and how much I see. :/ If I want to block someone back, it should be my choice. It shouldn't be a mutual autoblock. Least of all, it should be a mutual autoblock without you seeing who blocked you.

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fwiw, this part of my post was a possible "what would happen if..." scenario, not a statement on what's broken with the current blocking system. Like , I did notice that things like random kissing, trick-or-treating and such aren't affected by blocking (I did trick-or-treat at a blocked person's house before), so those should be added.

re: your idea of expanding, kinda like a discord block right? i'd like that- a soft block, be able to (by default) not see their post but see that they've made a post and have it toggable open and closed. that would solve the issue of having stuff like holiday threads be unreadable if you have the op blocked. while you might not like someone for their views, its annoying when some of them make event relevant threads, especially if it is a mutual block.

:'D I've never had to block anyone on discord, so I haven't the foggiest, but it sounds like it would work like that, yeah! And I completely agree, it's annoying to be locked out of everything done by that person just because you don't want to read what they have to say. Especially during things like plots, holidays and such, where users end up compiling most, if not all of the plot information, steps, solutions and so on. Sure, you can ask other users for help with plot steps, but you're kind of missing out on silly harmless fun and community participation on that thread. And duplicate threads are a nono.

The block feature would stay alongside this, so if there are people whose guts you absolutely cannot stand, well...

Some time back, I had someone blocked who I had to unblock, after I got told off by the mods making for duplicate threads. When I in part blocked them because they're... really, really talkative. I'd ask a question, get directed to one of their threads where they'd already asked it, and have to delicately explain why I couldn't see the thread. It just wasn't worth the hassle anymore.