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I support it without a part:
If you want to have the person on the list but they don't, they still should be able to friend you and see your feeds and other things, because it'd be just so weird to e able to become "invisible" for someone, thing tht would also makes scamming easier

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Blue: There's nothing that states that you become invisible to them, it just states that there's minimal contact between the two of you.

They should NOT be able to friend you because for most people that's a notification from the user they want blocked. They can still view your feeds, If they are already following you then they aren't removed, and they can still view your page whether they are blocked or not or friends or not.

They just aren't able to talk to you. If they post on your feeds, it's a approve or decline messages, so you don't have to have harassment posted publicly to your feeds. They can send plushies, but can't add messages to them (or the message gets removed upon receiving it, as this was made before the random plushies were added)
They can't pm you, they can't palpad you, and the latest suggestion is that they can't offer on your trades (as some users find it fun to harass this way)

But it's not you disappearing from them. It's blocking the communication between two users for one reason or another. (And it doesn't replace reporting, but it is a preventive measure if the offense isn't reportable or is taking too long to get resolved.)

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^ Yes, yes & more yes

Navuso i wanna see this go threw as its something that is needed. Keep up your greatness. :D

I have added a screenshot to the first post and put the rest of the first post into a spoiler, as I think the screenshot should be enough to explain the situation ;)

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omg support.

like my "user cant vs seeker you" spam can happens.

I think we should also add in an option for the Vs. Seeker,

Ive had days where the same person has sent me over 100 requests to battle them.

It is very frustrating to say the least.

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Bump

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Bump! Was gonna suggest myself :p

I like the idea, but it may not be needed. I saw a suggestion saying that there should be a way so certain people can or cant veiw your feeds. I dont have that issue, but blocking would be helpful if i needed it.

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Wow, ok uhm, I just saw this and I feel like I need to make an input and this suggestion needs to be known by literally everyone because this is the best thing since the Emera square feature. Woot, prepare for Shenzi's text wall.

Honestly I don't see why this SHOULDNT be implemented, because all the kids sites I've been on have had this. (Ex: Club Penguin, Animal Jam, Y'know, the sites that nobody really likes anymore?)

To be TOTALLY honest, I've had people message me who are flat out annoying. Yeah, I said it, there are people outside of my comfort group who decide to storm in and constantly bug me. They're not so much begging for anything, but I'm not too comfortable with them. Not that they've done anything wrong that deserves reporting either. It's more of....."Hi wnn b frenz i spek english gud!!!" kind of horrible speech that gives me headaches when I look at it. I shouuuld have the right to not subject myself to that kind of torture, especially when ignoring them doesn't work. Given that I'm too nice to flat out ignore people's messages too, blocking them gives me a reason to not HAVE to respond.

Okaaaay I may have exaggerated a little. But there HAVE been some pretty annoying people around who Im not really comfortable with talking to, and I would LOVE if I could choose not to have them message me.

On another note, I've had people talk to me in spanish, and everyone knows google translate isn't great. I'd use the best of my 6th grade training to tell them I don't speak spanish, yet they insist on carrying on a conversation. It's not really harrassment in my opinion, because they arent begging for anything, they just....don't understand my awful spanish skills. It may seem a little rude to just suddenly block someone like that from talking to you but hey, we have the freedom to filter out certain things from our lives, and I can't talk to them because they obviously don't speak english very well, nor can I ignore them because they wont stop messaging me.

Now on the other hand, there are beggars and people who may curse you out. This is where my mention of other sites come in. Moderators may not get reports right away. You can report the person and block them to prevent them from offending you or begging for your stuff while you wait for them to get their warning. I personally wouldnt want someone telling me i was a dumb person. I also wouldnt want to put up with their constant messages full of insults while I wait for a moderator to handle it. I ALSO wouldn't want them yelling at me more when they got their warning as they realize that I reported them (Because I have had people get angry at me when I told them to stop bugging me and they got a warning right after). And yeah, I could simply not click on their palpad, but I personally hate seeing my palpad constantly lit up. If I ignored someone, their message would keep my palpad illuminated, preventing me from knowing if my friend's have messaged me, simply because I'm avoiding that person and I'm perpetually stuck in a loop of "It may be important, or it may be Pikagirl_Bolt009 calling me a jerk for not accepting her magikarp on the extra palkia I set up for SuperCoolNerdFriend15".

While there may be bad things to come for it (for example, kids crying to their parents as someone mentioned earlier) I feel like no harm could truly come from it. Maybe seeing you've been blocked as well as reported will cause you to think about what you may have done wrong, and help you improve on that. There is indeed a friends-only palpad option, but I prefer to keep that open as I occasionally offer to buy boxes and keys, and some lovely strangers may be interested in some extra cash. I wouldn't want to punish everyone due to the fault of one or two people. Navuso's suggestion to only block people from certain things is lovely. PM's, Palpads, Commenting on feeds, y'know the good stuff. This really needs to be implimented. Especially for seeing the people's feeds, I've seen people here saying "Just delete them"

What about the notification wall? You've seen a disgusting, gorey feed, or a threatening harsh attack towards someone, and you think "I don't want to see that. I know I don't have them added, but I do check the notification wall often, and they post this kind of stuff a lot."

Report them, and then block their feeds from showing up anywhere for you. Other people can view it if they want, but you personally will not have to see it.

I should probably bring this to a close, as I've rambled and probably misspelled everything, so all I can really say now is I really, REALLY hope this is something that shows up in the future

Good day ❤

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I love this idea:D

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Le bump because reasons

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friendly bump

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Yeah this is a great idea that should really be implemented. Sometimes it's just annoying to have people spam you with "Can I please have your shiny blablabla" or "Please check out my auction" that "simply ignoring them" just isn't that simple. Why else do social media sites have a blocking system? Why else do many telcos worldwide allow the blocking of certain numbers from calling you?

The suggestion that blocked people should not be able to offer on your trades is great as well, seeing how many pinsirs and butterfrees people offer whenever I try to sell shines or events

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this is a really good suggestion, spammers and beggars are relentless, so a tool to lessen the heat would be perfect.

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I think literally ignoring is better than blocking, blocking would cause millions of people to make unnessicary drama.

Oh, a pm about your auction from that dude you hate. Just don't read it.

Oh, the user MeanPants is commenting rude things on your feed. Report it and delete that feed from your wall.

MeanPants is back, and bullying you. Report it.

Meanpants keeps offering Magikarp for your Mew. Just decline the trade offer.

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Apart from the fact that you are literally not able to decline a trade offer, all the arguments you have brought to this discussion have been negated before.
"Just ignore it" is not a valid argument and can't be one, since people that are pestering you are the ones causing the so called drama, not the people who invoke their right to not having that person stealing their time and nerves.
"Just ignore it" is an argument that blames the victim for even being bothered by this in the first place. And that's not only not okay, that's really bad for this site, too.

Seriously though, every single community I've been to has had a blacklist system and I've only ever used those blacklists for maybe 5 users. In all my years on the internet. Still all those occasions have been valid and have blocked people out of my life who just wouldn't learn that enough is enough.
Why does PH leave this suggestion just lying around for years on end?

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I really like this idea and I don't see why it shouldn't be implemented, and if people really don't like the idea of having a block list there is nothing that would force them to use it...

I feel like this would be a great addition to the site, there are so many people out there that enjoy pestering random people and that just isn't cool! If somebody is being a jerk to you then blocking them would make it so you don't have to bother with them. Personally I get really angry just knowing somebody who is being a prick is still sending messages, which leads to having a short fuse with innocent people in the real world. Blocking the jerks that just won't stop bugging you just sorta makes sense c:

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I like this idea but also I am partially against it,
First, PH is a friendly community which allows you to interact with people round the globe, secondly, if someone is scamming you, you can easily report him/her ,this "block list " will also not help in clearing misconceptions created between the 2 users, due to misunderstanding.

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