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What does blocking someone actually do? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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What does blocking on kbin actually do? I’m asking because it seems incomplete, to put it mildly. If you block someone, they can still see what you post and reply to you and you’re still sent notifications of their replies, even though you can’t see the comment itself (or any replies other people make to comments of an account you blocked). Plus, I blocked someone who was spent the last day downvoting literally every comment and post I make, and they’re still able to see and downvote my replies and posts. So what exactly is the point of blocking, if it doesn’t actually block people? Is this something that’s going to be fixed in the future?

EDIT: Oh, hey, the irony, the person I blocked was able to see and downvote this post. Which just proves my point, I suppose - block is either busted or what it actually is for needs a lot of clarification.

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[–] phi1997@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking at your reduces, the same person is down voting all my stuff, too. They're probably running a script or something

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fricking weirdo.

There needs to be a way to report someone to their instance, not just the mods of a magazine, like you do on Mastodon. People like this being a nuisance across magazines need to be handled at the instance level.

[–] phi1997@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh hey, they found us on this thread

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And here I’d thought they’d gotten bored and moved on.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be serious, though, I have them blocked. I just doublechecked. In most places, blocking would make anything I post or comment completely inaccessible to them. They shouldn’t be able to see it or interact with anything. But clearly they can. So what does blocking do, exactly?

[–] Gutotito@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

At this point, I'm just amused that you went on a screed about downvotes after doing it yourself -- that it bugs you this much when it accomplishes nothing is kinda funny. Downvotes don't impact your account in any way; it's just there for looks.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw them complaining about another user by name doing the same to them yesterday or the day before. I remember because I clicked through, noticed it was going both ways, and thought it was stupid to bitch about something while doing it as well.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

They posted somewhere to specially accuse of of downvoting all their comments after they had gone through literally downvoting all of mine, and after I had blocked them, soI was like, “dude, I wouldn’t even know who you ARE if this hadn’t shown up in my mentions.” I think I downvoted maaaybe three of their comments in one of my posts that I honestly disagreed with and hadn’t even looked at their main page until then. I have no idea what his issue is other than me telling him not to be a dick to other people. Dude is projecting hard.