Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Also, something else we're mulling over: Should you be able to say "I'm going to ignore this person, and I want them to ignore me".
Probably not much value here, I think. People can simply log out or use an incognito window to read your posts, so you're not gaining much.
Hmm. I'm reconsidering this. Perhaps there is value in, quite explicitly, Alice telling Bob that "I don't want you to interact with me." If Alice mutes [1] Bob, Bob doesn't know -- resulting in scenarios where Bob replies to Alice then wonders why he's being ignored. If Alice blocks [2] Bob, Bob knows about it, and can take action on that knowledge -- like modifying his behaviour in the future, perhaps, if we assume Alice is acting in good faith and Bob was being a dick.
On the other hand, Bob might go thermonuclear at the insult and cause drama, of course. Swings and roundabouts.
Grim..., can you pull some anonymised statistics of current block functionality usage? Product decisions are better with data.
[1] Using this in the modern social network meaning ie. Alice doesn't see Bob's posts. phpbb calls this "Foe" or "ignore."
[2] Again, using modern terminology ie. now Bob doesn't see Alice's posts. phpbb doesn't have this currently, I think.