About blocking in Micro.blog manton.org

@manton Yes! Excellent. This is one of those features that I've always wanted but struggle to keep in my memory for reference whenever I talk about whether I would encourage people to join.

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> “Blocking someone will prevent your posts from showing up in their timeline.”

Shouldn’t it be the other way round?

// @SimonWoods

@manton I think of capabilities like blocking, as analogous to physical home security. Yeah, a determined and knowledgeable person could certainly break into any house... but that doesn't mean you should shrug your shoulders and conclude there's no point to having a lock on the door. Thanks for doing this.

@JohnPhilpin @SimonWoods I left out that muting happens too, so you don't see their posts. The terminology is confusing which is another reason we put off doing this.

@annahavron Great analogy.

@manton I still think what you wrote is the wrong way round?

@JohnPhilpin I think it's correct.

Muting: don't see posts from someone whose posts you don't want to see.

Blocking: don't show posts to someone you don't want to show posts to.

@manton Thank you. This is a great addition. I haven’t been needing it (because I’ve concluded the same as you did), but I welcome it now, because I think a large degree of the problem is rather random. I think the feature should come with a warning though, as maybe not everyone understands that blocking only works so far.

@sherif aahh - thankyou - as @manton wrote - confusing.

@manton This is an excellent and important addition, thanks Manton! Thankfully I’ve never come across a situation on Micro.blog that required blocking, but it’s nice to know the feature is available.

@manton I wonder how muting and blocking relates to the content warning tag on Mastodon?

@manton I haven't had the need to block anyone in M.b but it's good have this option.

@SamHawken Individually, we imagine and relate to our blog audiences differently. If I were to block someone, it would mean that I don’t want to think of how that person would react to my post on the timeline. Yes, they could read it elsewhere and figure out some way to respond, but I don’t want it to be easy.

@annahavron provided the excellent analogy that it’s like home security. 🔒

@manton will this also stop comments on your blog from them (a current gap in muting)?

@manton that piece is interesting…not sure if it belongs more with “blocking” or “muting”. But still a good addition 👍

@manton I’ve been curious about this. Is there are way to remove a comment that you don’t want to appear on your blog? I haven’t had the need to, and hope that I won’t, but I wouldn’t want to have to go running to @help in such a case.

@jarrod There's no way, but there should be. We need a system that is specifically for curating your own comments.

@manton +1 to that.

@KimberlyHirsh @manton And +1 here.

@maique @KimberlyHirsh @manton Fully agreed here too. Having tools to manage this might give more people confidence to enable replies on their site.