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@Ephenia
Oh shoot, I didn't know that option existed in the Settings rip
Thanks for pointing it out.
I do agree with your idea of the "highlight randomly sent plushies" suggestion for the reasons you said, and I'd support this instead of a plushie blocker. It would definitely help out.

^^^^^^

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I don't think this is really needed to be honest. Plushies are simple gifts and a little extra part of the site, there's not a necessity for blocking certain ones. I get it, there are Pokemon some people really really don't like, but I think a plushie blocker is kinda dramatic.

Sure it can be hide but I am think that not everyone wants to end up hiding ALL plushies so not so what to think if yes or no.

Of it doesn't affect those who don't use it, why could it be a bad idea?
Support

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Big support for this. It doesn't hurt anyone who doesn't want to use it, and it can massively benefit people who do want to use it. Just because you think it's stupid to be affected by a Pokemon plushie doesn't mean people AREN'T affected.

Something I went through several years back caused me some pretty serious trauma, and amongst other things there were certain Pokemon that, in various ways, were linked to the situation and therefore became a trigger and trigger is a legitimate word for when something seriously affects your mental health in a negative way due to reminding you of a past trauma, not just a word for when someone gets "offended". If I were still in that same place, and I had gone through the same sort of harassment that the user from the Plushie Drama before had received, I would have ended up in a very, VERY serious mental health crisis. Literally anything can be a trigger for someone, and just because the processes behind it aren't always clear to you, it doesn't mean that the trigger doesn't exist and doesn't lead to legitimate distress. So to prevent this sort of thing happening again, with people being sent plushies they explicitly ask not to receive deliberately to harass and upset and, yes, trigger them, this suggestion should be implemented. It's a simple bit of code and it could prevent so much petty drama and harassment, and save a lot of people a lot of worry.

On top of that. Sometimes people just don't want a plushie sent to them cause they'd rather receive meaningful plushies and not be spammed with "I need to spend DP" plushies. And that should be respected too. It doesn't have to be deep.

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i support this so yes!

lots of support. i’m tired of getting magikarp plushies because it’s all i get anymore. gifts stop being special when it’s all you get. i got a blissey yesterday and i’m telling you i almost cried because i hadn’t get anything but magikarp in literally weeks.

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A little late to the party but just add this feature already. Cause one of the main reasons I’m still not getting a spam friendly DW shop is because people send karps to people who don’t like them. Just add it. I WANT MY SMAP FRIENDLY DW SHOP. 😂😂😍😍

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I like plushies. I don’t understand why you don’t appreciate the plushies,

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I apreciate plushies too. (I like em so much i actually pay for them).

Anyways i have been seriously thinking about this. And maybe instead of a block option we get a disliked option.

Now here is how it will work. We choose a plush. Select the random user option. Currently we have 3 options. 1)completly random 2) new user 3)friendlist one if im not wrong. We can add 2 more options. (1) users who have favourited the plushie. (2) random except those who have disliked the plush


Edit: after a little more pondering over this maybe the disliked plush option will allow us to not receive the plush by random but it can still be sent intentionally.

Like suppose a user has put karp as a disliked plush. Whenever someone randomly sends a karp the karp will not go to the user. Basically they will be taken out of the RNG.

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I think it's an amazing idea

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No support. This is completely unnecessary. @Imagine summed up my thoughts.

I understand that Magikarp plushies are annoying to receive, but it's not the end of the world. If people are sending plushies as a way of harassing another then you have all the proof you need to ban the user. I really don't see the point in this. To me, it seems really selfish...

When someone sends a plushie, they are sending it out of the kindness of their heart. Whenever it's something worth 5 DP or 1000 DP it shouldn't matter, you are at least getting something!

I'm mixed but ima say no support 4 the reasons Imagine said

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@rararasputin

Look at it this way. A person hates magikarp plushies so much they are willing to block people just to not get them anymore. Now a user keeps sending them magikarp plushies so they block them then the user get their friends to send magikarp plushies. Now the person is getting harassed but they can’t do any thing about it cause well as long as the users sending the magikarp plushies doesn’t attach a offensive message they are not doing anything reportable even though it is harassment at the top. We just got no proof.

Yes I understand that a 5dp gift is as good as a 1000 dp gift. I totally get that point of view but what I don’t understand is why are people so against this. Like you don’t wanna block a plush? Don’t. But if this feature can make life of someone a bit easier what’s wrong with that? Like it’s not affecting you at all if you don’t want it to.

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but what I don’t understand is why are people so against this. Like you don’t wanna block a plush? Don’t. But if this feature can make life of someone a bit easier what’s wrong with that? Like it’s not affecting you at all if you don’t want it to.

Because it's pointless as well as that argument you're bringing back up, it's just a vicious circle. This is not really solving a problem that has been ongoing ever since the beginning of plushies and the Dream World Shop being a thing. It just makes it worse if this were to get implemented as it's simply not going to sit well with a good proportion of the community.

This is exactly why I made this suggestion here. You can see how the feedback on my suggestion is greater in terms to the support:not support ratio. That makes it a better solution to the main problem at hand, at least.

Anyway, most people who have been blocked over sending plushies have done so by completely randomly sending them to others. A lot of people don't really like how these people who randomly receive these plushies that they don't like, go onto act like they're a target or some victim when they aren't. They automatically assume that people are sending these plushies to them intentionally to hurt/annoy them, or they fail to realize that it's even possible to randomly send out plushies. It's not even just receiving plushies that they may not like from users, whether users like or dislike a plushie or not may be irrelevant to why a user may be feeling a target/harassed.

This has created lots of drama and toxicity within our community overtime, and that's the whole problem. Having a plushie blocker isn't going to ultimately help solve what damage has already been done to this community. Our community is already over 6 years old and many people have feuds and their gripes with each other as is. But, years worth of damage that has since then tainted this community, and still continues to as long as nothing right is done about this problem.

I'm sure there's a lot of people that were unsure if they were actually targets of others sending plushies that they didn't like before in time, and they may have blocked others to be safe than sorry. If they knew that they were actually randomly sent before, then perhaps this would actually change the behavior of these users with time. It could actually resolves issues with other users that shouldn't have been issues to begin with. Also, maybe we'd actually start to see more people asking for plushies they'd actually want from these users who send plushies randomly to others and things like that instead of just mindlessly blocking others. It brings the community more together, rather than just breaking it more apart.

I'm sure there's many people who wouldn't actually truly care what plushiest they would receive if they know they're being randomly sent to them, and they aren't actually being targeted. Regardless if they actually like or dislike a plushie or not.

But yeah, a plushie blocker isn't really the right solution. It's not what will be making the community any healthier. The point of plushies were always meant to be harmless and merely gifts to others, not used as weapons and starting war. It should have never got to the point where people have been so offended over digital pixels on a screen that make up an image, but it has unfortunately. The problem isn't truly about whether people want certain plushies or not, it's more about people feeling like they're targets and or being harassed by others with the use of plushies.

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That kinda makes sense. (I don’t think that In depth to have realised all what you said on my own.)

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This suggestion has received less than 60% support and was moved to rejected.

Total votes: 201
Support ratio: 59%

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