What does blocking someone actually do?
What does blocking someone actually do?
What does blocking on kbin actually do? I’m asking because it seems incomplete, to put it mildly. If you block someone, they can still see what you post and reply to you and you’re still sent notifications of their replies, even though you can’t see the comment itself (or any replies other people make to comments of an account you blocked). Plus, I blocked someone who was spent the last day downvoting literally every comment and post I make, and they’re still able to see and downvote my replies and posts. So what exactly is the point of blocking, if it doesn’t actually block people? Is this something that’s going to be fixed in the future?
EDIT: Oh, hey, the irony, the person I blocked was able to see and downvote this post. Which just proves my point, I suppose - block is either busted or what it actually is for needs a lot of clarification.
Looking at your reduces, the same person is down voting all my stuff, too. They're probably running a script or something
I saw them complaining about another user by name doing the same to them yesterday or the day before. I remember because I clicked through, noticed it was going both ways, and thought it was stupid to bitch about something while doing it as well.
They posted somewhere to specially accuse of of downvoting all their comments after they had gone through literally downvoting all of mine, and after I had blocked them, soI was like, “dude, I wouldn’t even know who you ARE if this hadn’t shown up in my mentions.” I think I downvoted maaaybe three of their comments in one of my posts that I honestly disagreed with and hadn’t even looked at their main page until then. I have no idea what his issue is other than me telling him not to be a dick to other people. Dude is projecting hard.
Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.
If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.
I feel like blocking someone should make it so they can’t see your posts or respond to them at all, and at the very least so you can’t see anything they respond to or include you in without it being your choice. Right now, it’s almost the opposite. You can’t see their comments, but they can still see and interact with you, and the system lets you know they have, but leaves you with no way to react other than unblocking them. That’s not at all how it’s supposed to work.
@ernest - just a heads up that I'm experiencing the same bug - notifications from blocked accounts. Wouldn't normally be an issue, but we've got a couple of trolls that like to go back to old threads and keep replying to try and bait a response.
Ah, we finally got to the point of "anyone who disagrees with me is a troll." Took longer than I thought. This thread is becoming a great way to populate my blocklist.
Maybe just a bug?
One that very much needs to be fixed.
Probably
I had a look and did not find an issue about receiving notifications from blocked users. I might've missed it, but feel free to add one https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues or I can add one for you
Regarding messaging instance admins, there is a contact link in the footer, but I have no idea what it does or if it works. Perhaps there needs to be an issue to streamline that process as well (interestingly my instance links a mastodon and email contact, kbin. socials is a bit vague with no information)
I don’t have an account on codeberg, so could you make an issue about it? I would really appreciate it.
Jack shit apparently
Blocking magazines doesn’t do anything either.
Blocking needs a complete overhaul, honestly.