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Blocking a user behaves more like mute. Proper blocking needed to prevent harassment. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by FarraigePlaisteach@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.

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[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Situation 1: Person A annoys person B. Person B "mutes" person A. Person A rants at Person B, gets no reply, and moves on.

Situation 2: Person A annoys person B. Person B "blocks" person A. Person A notices Person B has blocked them, logs on to an alt account, and annoys them from there.

One of these methods defuses harassment, the other has a far higher risk of escalating it.

I'm curious about what makes people think the second method would work better.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Agreed. If anything, if someone gets muted enough times, lemmy should generate a report to the mods and admins for review. That way serial bullys can be blocked from a community or instance, which is far more effective.