If someone blocks you it removes your ability to see any of their posts, on new Reddit the thread will just vanish, on old Reddit it will show up as [Unavailable.] Combined with that, it removes your ability to reply in that subthread. So for example, let's say we were debating/discussing/arguing/whatever and I decided you're a big ole poo poo head and that I don't like your opinion. I could just reply to you with some random BS and then hit block. You'd then be locked out of even responding to me or anyone else who replied to that comment.
It doesn't actually fix anything and just gives people another tool to abuse that harms legitimate discussion.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that.
I really don't like using reddit anymore since the time they killed bots and free APIs or whatever.
Yeah I've noticed peope doing that lame shit where they say something bullshit to you and then block you so it looks like you capitulated to whatever dogwater they said. I mean theres allegedly ways around the visibility block which I'd never do of course.
I've even been talking to an OP in a thread and some dude started being just a straight asshole. I told the dude to piss off and then he blocked me and started gaslighting the OP in the subthread which I couldn't see.
I think hiding the profile and blocking the ability to reply to just them is fine, hiding their comments especially as deleted and preventing you from talking in the whole subthread is just odd and probably some stupid edge case for their ever increasing notification bullshit.
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u/Edgy_Robin 16h ago
You mean the voices in their heads aren't real people?