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[–]Breadman 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Thank you for this feature, you will save this website!

[–]Jesus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

It won't help newcomers. They'll still see all posts. It will only help increase biases. I will use it on shills only. not people who disagree with me.

[–]Extract 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Why use it on shills, though? Not seeing their threads simply means you cannot call them out and let them go unopposed (or, with less opposition).

[–]Jesus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

True. I guess no blocking at all for me. I already have been blocked twice for so-called anti-Semitism.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This blocking is bad news man.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. It sucks because people will react on their emotions and block someone immediately than listen to another opinion. It makes it much easier to create an echo chamber.

And what is to say that person KEEPS commenting and doesn't realize he was blocked. /u/magnora7

I'm sorry but I don't like the unlimited blocking feature. In fact I think their should be a max amount of blocks. particularly reserved to those who are spamming you.

You might disagree but saidit is designed as a free speech hub. Even if someone writes a well thought out argument that person can simply block him on emotion rather than debunking him.

Again, unlimted blocking is bad in my honest opinion. There should be a max amount.

In real life, you can WALK AWAY FROM WHAT SOMEONE IS SAYING TO YOU. You do not HAVE TO LISTEN to them but thay doesn't mean you can tape their mouth up and have them cease to exist. They will speak up, and if that person ignores them, so be it!!!

Which is exactly why I think you need to integrate a max amount of blocks, reserved to those that ACTUALLY COMMENT TO you and how much they comment to you in a given day, or something like that.

That would make it so that the person would not be able to rely on his emotions and block the person immediately for saying some he doesn't agree with.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Best feature would be max amount of blocks and only to those who spam you in a given day. Say you can block a person after he posts to you in a given day 10 times or something like that.

I think is a reasonable idea, considering so many people will act on their emotions before even thinking about listening to another opinion. So, if they have a feature where they can shut people down the millisecond they reapond to them, it will only breed ignorance.

/u/magnora7

I really think this is a reasonable idea.

Indon't know if you could integrate it into the code but like max karma posts for making new acconts or max karma posts for creating a new sub and a max number, this needs to also be applied to the mute button so as to not breed cognitive dissonance!

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds complicated.

How about a time limit? Automatically dissolves after a week or month or year.

Or better: First time you block them is a week, second time a month, third time a year.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think this is a bad move too.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It didn't need "saving".