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blocking system/safety update
Forum-Index → Suggestions → blocking system/safety update-Zenitsu Agatsuma, Demon Slayer
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I imagine the coding would be quite similar? I'm not a huge coder though so not positive. Just seems like it would be pretty much like the friend list code.
I would have made a suggestion for this but I'm not digging through years of stuff to possibly find nothing to just be yelled at or shot down because it is actually somewhere and I just couldn't find it. 🤷♀️
its been almost 7 months since weve heard anything and with all that happens with the notification wall it would be really nice to have
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The feeds thing makes sense, for security reasons, but also as someone said before some people block people who are annoying them but still wish to have the ability to help them.
The obvious solution, which I didn't realize until I wrote this, would be to have a tick box in the settings tab that says something like "Don't allow guests/blocked users to see my feeds or profile" which would be unticked until a user changed it, as not to inconvenience current users or discourage new ones as mentioned above.
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the only real issue i could see with doing that is like anon clicking on peoples partys, i think optional private profiles are a good way to go too i dont dissagree with that, tho i do worry for the people who put any sort of contacts in their about me
my sentiment still remains if you are to block someone it should mean it as a message that you no longer want engagement with that person thats why blocking exists and there are plenty of other people who can help them too so its not something you have to really worry about if someones driving ya crazy
i still think the blocking system and the way everythings set up is still extremely flawed, my main concerns are:
- you can still see the feeds of people who blocked you if youve added them to your friendslist something you can still do after they blocked you (and something the person who blocked you cannot control because they cannot remove you)
-people who have blocked yous feeds still show up on the notif wall on the "recent posts" and also on trending
- people who we do blocks feeds still show up reguardless there is no way to avoid seeing peoples feeds unless they block you and even then, as shown above, it doesnt take them away completely. i dont think its a bad idea to have blockees posts at least have a "hidden" feature because the amount of times i or others i know have gone on the notif wall and gotten triggered or put in really bad headspaces by people talking about their like personal trauma and just really sensitive topics or see people post the most braindead hate feeds ive seen in my life is staggering and it would be just so awesome if people had a way to like not see it if they didnt want it. i really go on the notif wall sometimes and then instantly go "ah man 🧍"
(hope my tone in this post sounds okay/not rude i dont mean it to be i am very very tired, unrelated to the pokeheroereoes)
if anyones new to looking at this suggestion id recommend also looking through all the prior posts before voting as its got a few rather good points and discussions in it that bring up some valid concerns other than the initial post /gen
and as always if anyones got anything to add or concerns etc to share please feel free to add them
Pokeheroes is both a game and has social elements, so while I may be annoyed with a user for being annoying privately, i might not have problems with the public content they make, or I may be annoyed with a user's content, but still want to contact them for trades/commissions etc.
As an example,
If a user kept palpadding me to trade unsolicited, I would like them to not be able to contact me. Their feeds may still be interesting or informational, I just don't want to interact directly.
On the other hand, I might find a user annoying, or they post content that is triggering to me, but. I may still want to contact them occasionally to trade though. It's like pressing the "I want to see lesser of this type of content" button
Realistically, I would have 'users cannot see your feeds' apply to the notification page and notification wall only, because people tend to react badly to being blocked, and I don't want to notify them that I'm avoiding their content. I know many users avoid blocking as well as they see it as a drastic action
i can understand why youd want it set up that way but thats extremely specific and im not sure if that really alligns with how a block feature works, again its more similar to a mute or restrict feature if that makes sense
this system is less about people who are annoying or inconveniencing and more about keeping people safe from others actively being freaks to you (ie that random guy who PMed repeatedly telling me i was going to hell and that god hated me)
(for example, blocking on whatsapp still allows people to view message history, whereas blocking on telegram will erase the message history as well)
and yes a 'restrict' function (thank you for the term because i honestly forgot) can be separate but I'm bringing this up
i tried to be vague because i don't want to reference specific users but there are also users who i'm extremely uncomfortable with for various reasons (stuff that happened irl, triggers, bad past interactions, difference in worldviews) and i don't want them to know i'm uncomfortable with them, because sometimes it can be my issue, not theirs.
for example, triggers are definitely a safety issue, especially if someone has an uncommon trigger, and may not find them tagged often. if another user keeps posting about the trigger, a restrict function would be good so they they can avoid such content
I don’t think a restrict feature is a bad idea either, just that this suggestion is specifically about the blocking system I worry adding all this extra customizable stuff under “block” specifically just makes it confusing and needlessly complicated, from my knowledge wattsapp and telelgram are specifically messaging apps they’re less public, this would be more akin to how Instagram or Twitter would handle their blocking (I don’t use wattsapp or telegram so feel free to correct me there)
One of the reasons I really want a updated blocking system is due to how much triggering stuff gets talked about
And I’m not against the idea or discussion of a restrict feature I just don’t think it’s a good idea to have it BE the blocking if that makes sense
I hope this doesn’t sound rude at all and it’s written a bit rushed so if I’ve misinterpreted anything I apologize my brains a bit everywhere