Context: Lemmy still allow people to comment on your posts or comments after you blocked them:
I really don’t think blocking should prevent people from replying to you. I believe it should hide the content and not send you notifications, yes.
At the bare minimum, blocking should only prevent you from directly replying. On Reddit, if anyone in the comment chain above the comment you’re replying to had blocked you then you couldn’t make the comment.
I’m willing to discuss this, my opinions aren’t rock solid on this.
In cases of harassment (what I view as the strongest counter argument) I think mods/admin need to take action by banning. Like if someone puts a comment on every post I make saying “JackbyDev is a doodoo head” (or something actually offensive lol) then that’s harassment. I’m having trouble thinking of any problematic behaviors that wouldn’t qualify as harassment that allowing someone to comment in reply to would actually prevent.
(None of this comment has anything to do with blocking an instance which is a separate topic I have separate opinions on.)
Reddit implemented this, and it was abused heavily to push trolls posts and disinformation up the algorithm, since by blocking people who disagreed with them, after multiple attempts the naysayers could no longer see the posts.
Somebody tested it, and was able to get their testing misinformation posts heavily upvoted after just a few days.
