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Block List:
Forum-Index → Suggestions → Implemented → Block List:Most of us are very patient people. >u> Cause pokemon is totally frustrating by itself sometimes. But there's a limit to patience. Even if it's because you don't speak the same language, aren't the same age or anything like that. If they're being rude or spammy, you tell them to stop or try to talk it out. They don't always stop. Shit happens, I understand. Say you see someone bashing on gays (Not saying I do, just using the biggest example) on everything in their signature, page, and posts. You don't want to see that, especially if they're RUDE on top of that.
Honestly, I don't like going on my friendlist and seeing people adding me without my consent. Hell, I'd like to be able to reject people adding me to their friendlist and would rather them just 'follow' me like in tumblr and facebook. I mean, honestly, I'd like to talk before you add me. And if you add me just to post spammy or mean things on my feed or my things, I should be able to block them.
I'm nice, or I'd like to think I am. I'm usually patient, but there is a point where you just have to say I can't deal anymore. This person upsets me because they won't listen and use their age or their newness as an excuse to bother you to the point of just no. I think it's kinda rude to ask a question on someone's feed when it's a totally different topic. I think it's rude to have to repeat yourself 3-10 times to someone and they act like you didn't respond. I think it's abusing a user. There's even users who post I hate you to people when they've done nothing wrong but said no or reputed their point.
Anyways, I support the ability to block people because it's a right. It's like how you can get a restraining order on someone if they get that bad. There is a point where things are that bad. People change though which is why I like bourkey's idea. Who knows, maybe that kid who's rude and mean can do a 180 because of something in their lives. But I believe you should be able to block people. If it's just cause you don't like them, that's your opinion and right. Ignoring doesn't help, you still read it because it's there. You could not report someone and nothing happens. Blocking is nice.
It's not you ignoring these things, it's actually preventing them from happening. That's the reason I chose that name for this suggestion. However it can be named whatever Riako wants to call it if he wants to add it to the site. Thank you for your support :3
Aisling: Thank you for such a lovely post :3
Title: Support
Also on other sites block lists work and are very effective and I feel they'd be great on this site.
I have a question, does this prevent all interactions? So if the person you blocked wanted to send you a Plushie they couldn't?
It would be cool if Block Lists would allow people you blocked to send you Plushies however they can't send messages with the Plushies. This is so you wouldn't get a Plushie from somebody you blocked saying, "Can you please Unblock Me? I promise do the thing I did that made you block me."
A Block List would really help those who are doing trades/raffles/feeds/etc. and where one user may say something or be offline, and the other user could start harassing you and threatening you if you don't give them their stuff or so on. So it'd be really helpful to just be able to Block them. Plus with a block list, there'd be no reason to have to take up more room in a post for say a contest or an RP, to say who is banned from posting or participating in the thread. A block list would stop that from happening.
An idea I'd like to add on, is say User A blocks User B, then any of User A's threads cannot be posted in by User B, only viewed and looked at. Yes it would show the blocked User B that they are blocked, but at least User A isn't getting harassed. Hopefully, User B would understand what they did wrong or try to figure it out.
And with earlier posts in here, about "just report the user who's harassing you". Sometimes, I feel as though if you report someone instead of just blocking them, they could get more offended and angry at you, and if they are able to, they could harass you even more if all you could do it "report them."
Overall, thanks for posting this suggestion Nav!~ I support this all the way.
i hope that clarifies why if someone's behavior gets so out of hand that they need to be blocked, they need to be reported as well
I just want to add this even tho it might be quite obvious. People don't have to stay on a block list forever. =)
Personally i tend to unblock them after a certain amount of time (like some months) and give them a second chance. (Or just because i can't remember why i was blocking the person anyway. :P)
Sure if a user really needs to block me (out of whatever reasons) i have to accept this and can accept it.
On forums, instead of not seeing their post, you see something like,
This post was made by ______, a user on your Block List. Would you like to view this post?
And then, like the 'Show hidden content' button, if you click it, it will show the post.