A "block" feature on the forums.

[Jemini]

I do not know if there's already a "block" feature on the forums, but if there is then it is not in any place that's clear or obvious.

I have been dealing with long-term harrassment on the forums by a certain user, and have asked them on several occasions to leave me alone. However, they will not stop. When I attempted to report them for harrassment, I was told that everyone has the right to reply to other users, and that I'd have to just block them. I attempted to do so, but I found no function to allow me to do such a thing on the forums.

I know where the "block" function is on the novel posting end of the site, but I cannot find such a function on the forums.

If one does not exist, I would like to see it prevent another user from replying to the person's posts or @ posting at them, and also prevent the person who initiated the block from doing the same back to them so we do not accidentally respond to the person not noticing it's them in cases where they have an unassuming looking avatar and posts something such as, say, a video that jumps out far more prominently than the user's avatar. (A scenario I've been caught in fairly recently with this user.)

Making posts invisible to another user is a sticky situation here though, but if there is any of that involved in the feature, then it should not be only the blocked person being invisible to the one who blocked them. If it's going to be one-sided, then the person who initiated the block should be invisible to the person they are blocking, as to prevent scenarios where the harrasser in question is bad-mouthing their victim without the victim having knowledge of it to defend themselves.

I believe, however, the best case scenario would be a mutual two-way invisibility in which all posts of either user are hidden from the other.

Finally, and this is something of a 2nd feature request I might have mentioned elsewhere before, I think the forum and the novel site accounts should be linked. The problem here is that the "block" feature exists in a very intuitive manner on the novel site, but it either does not exist on the forum or exists with a very unintuitive presentation such as to render it effectively unusable by anyone who would actually need it.

This issue can be solved very effectively by simply linking accounts. It is also a matter where, if someone does need to block someone else, it's likely they would want them blocked on both ends of the site as the kind of person who is likely to need to be blocked is also likely the type who may stalk a person to their novel and cause trouble there as well.

EDIT: Ok, I actually finally found the "ignore" feature, as it's called, immediately after making this post.

The rest of my points still stand. But, in terms of where my head was and why I wasn't able to so easily find it attached to the profile page of the user I wanted to block, I think an improvement would be to put an "ignore user" button on all posts immediately next to the "report" item.

Now that I am ignoring the user in question, I will see how helpful the current features on the site are in regards to this.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

If you don't think you are a rude person, I give this evidence right here.

I came in here attempting to resolve this situation by simply saying "I'm out" in regards to the person who has been simply the worst. Then, everyone who has also had beef all goes in making rude comments, gloating, and trying to pull this back into the mud.

What does that sound like to you? Rude is the kindest word I can throw out in that situation. There are several that are worse.

And still, in this case, I am trying to be civil.

If you want to call this a W, sure, just take the W, shut up, and let me have my life back without you in it. You never had to come in here, into this thread, and comment in the first place. That was completely on you.

If one person is rude towards you, that person is rude. If everyone are rude towards you, the problem is you. Also, I didn't mention any names, nor would I interact with YOU, if not for YOURS reply to me. I did comment in the thread, but I had no intention to talk to YOU. I wanted to talk with Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk.

By the way, you were also wrong back then, on multiple levels. You didn't admit you were wrong either. Should I post more screenshots? I am sure you don't think calling someone conspirational is rude, so I have more screenshots. I can post them if you want to.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I just don't like nasty conversations. And, every single conversation I ever have with that user, and only that user, seems to invariably turn nasty. I've just had enough of it and want that drama out of my life.

I'm good for debating someone who's willing to have a rational debate, but this individual seems to like deliberately mischaracterizing my words in really unflattering ways almost constantly, and I regard that as just exhausting to deal with.

If they can't engage in a discussion honestly and in good faith, then I do not want to have the discussion in the first place. I don't have time to waste the mental energy on people like that, so I decided to just shut it down.

(If every other sentence out of my mouth is "that's not what I said" and "how can you even get that from what I was saying?" Then I have to reach the conclusion that you are just not engaging in the discussion in good faith. You don't wrestle with a pig in filth. You just get covered in filth and the pig enjoys it. No matter what, you loose just by engaging. And, I already know the person in question is going to think I'm the "pig" in this scenario. If so, well then I'm fine with that. I don't care if you think that, so long as you can just draw that to the only correct logical conclusion. The only correct thing to do is to just not have anything to do with each other since it's obvious we can't be civil.)

Problem is, it says "ignore," not "block." That's not exactly the word you're looking for when you are in an elevated state after having it out with your harrasser. You are only even able to see the icon when you have recovered and are back in a calm-minded state.

That's why I suggested having an icon next to the "report" option directly on the posts. That's actually somewhere you would look in such a mental state.

Please don't parrot back phrases that have been used by the person in question in this conversation. I am unsure if you are talking aiming this one toward me or the other person.

If it is toward the other person, the fact you're using their words does not make it sound like that. If it is aimed at me, then you are basing this on what was essentially a farce, not a debate. It was just the other person saying "take the L, you're stupid, take the L, you said this dumb thing and it's dumb" over and over again.

That's not me loosing, that's the other person saying I'm loosing while twisting all my words. It was never even an honest debate to begin with. It was just me wrestling with a pig in filth.

(And yes, as per the analogy above, yes I did loose that engagement.)

I did not know that was happening. There is a block feature but I think it is the ignore feature beside follow when you click on their profile.

 

[Deleted member 41774]

I'm leaving this here before the thread gets locked. It's only Tuesday where I live and my week is already complete--

 

[justabot]

Locked as it's already been resolved + it's going off topic