New Saidit Feature: Now you can block individual users, so all their posts and comments will be automatically hidden from your view

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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Oh I don't know. Maybe you could make another account and check and try it and let us know what happens? That'd be helpful

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I tested with my alt! My alt has participated in a private sub I run, so it would definitely receive notification of being banned.

Like I said, I can see both why that's a good thing, but also why it's a bad thing. It's really foolish of a user to block a moderator and still continue to participate in a sub, but it does most definitely happen. I had it happen to me twice that I know of on Reddit, once intentionally and once by mistake.

Reddit's work-around was to have the blocked messages appear in the inbox, but with a statement that it was from a blocked user, so then the person had the choice to unblock to see it (or not). Meanwhile, here on Saidit ... checking the inbox as my alt, there's no indication anywhere that a message was received which has been blocked. Once my alt un-blocked me, the messages I sent as the subreddit (ban notification and the PM) appeared in the inbox.

Reddit's approach to it worked I guess, but I never thought it was an elegant solution. It also didn't address another problem that's introduced when a user blocks a mod - which is that any announcements or stickies (like rules, for examples) that the particular mod posts will also go unseen by that user.

What I'd like to see is:

1) Users who block moderators should still be able to receive messages sent on behalf of the sub, but not messages sent directly from that mod's user account.
2) Likewise, users should be able to see Posts and Comments that are distinguished as a moderator by that mod, but not regular ol' Posts and Comments from that moderator as a user otherwise.

I don't know how complex it would be to make the first idea happen, since I know nothing about how ModMail and PMs are coded. The second, I believe, could be accomplished by adding in a check for:

  • .link .author.moderator
  • .comment .author.moderator