[HN Gopher] Reddit announces revamped blocking experience
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Reddit announces revamped blocking experience
Author : ummonk
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-01-20 22:24 UTC (37 minutes ago)
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| AutumnCurtain wrote:
| Looks like it's down, I get a 504 gateway error.
| matart wrote:
| All of reddit is down for me right now
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| They blocked themselves, it appears.
| bigodbiel wrote:
| site is up, login is down
| Gobd wrote:
| Yeah it seems to not load if you're logged in. Both old and
| new Reddit working fine in Incognito mode in Chrome.
| ummonk wrote:
| Huh, I guess old reddit is down, but new seems to be working
| https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blo...
| S6eUL wrote:
| Both are down for me.
|
| redditstatus.com not indicating any problems, though. [1]
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| [1] https://www.redditstatus.com/
| smm11 wrote:
| Still not reviving my Reddit account.
| ummonk wrote:
| I think this is a major step backwards, as it allows people to
| abusively block anyone who rebuts their posts / comments in
| public fora. Having such blocking functionality on Twitter or
| Facebook timelines makes sense, but in my opinion Reddit should
| be more analogous to classic forums, or to Facebook groups, where
| you can't simply block someone else in the community from
| participating in your threads as long as they abide by the
| group's / forum's rules.
| version_five wrote:
| I don't really use reddit but have ended up following links to
| it a few times recently. I was really struck by all of the
| rules about what you could and couldn't say in many forums,
| mainly just how both specific and front and center they were.
| It strikes me as much more like a kindergarten than e.g. HN,
| where users are treated like kids and carefully monitored. I
| assume that's because of how many users they have in many
| subreddits.
| new_guy wrote:
| I disagree. I have a friend on there posting content and was
| getting harassed by a troll, the way the current blocking
| system works they can 'block' them, but it's a 1 way block, the
| abused can no longer see or interact with the abuser.
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| But the abuser can still comment on every single post/comment
| of the person they're abusing, which is just backwards. And
| they can't even report that any more because they can longer
| see it, even though it's still happening.
|
| The point of a block feature is to remove the abusers ability
| to interact in any capacity with the abused, and this new
| system looks to be a step towards that.
| ummonk wrote:
| The solution to actual harassment (rather than justified
| rebuttal) should be for the harasser to get suspended.
|
| Instead this system allows an abuser to, for example,
| preemptively block you and then make posts about you that
| you'll never see and be able to rebut or know to report.
| GravitasFailure wrote:
| Yeah, I have super mixed feelings about this. It's rife for
| abuse, but at the same time I've wanted this exact
| functionality for a while to avoid all the bots. I also have a
| bunch of people blocked that a mute would do just fine for, I
| just don't want to see their 4 posts every single day clogging
| up the subreddit.
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| Here's to hoping there's another update that addresses these
| issues.
| 7373737373 wrote:
| Reddit is becoming more and more people-, not content-centric. I
| suspect it will get its peak and then slowly die like the others:
| https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=myspace,...
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