Blocking users should only hide their comments and stop notifications. It should not disable replies. Change My Mind.

Q: Am I supposed to downvote someone when they block me? If I cannot reply to voice my disagreement, then all I am left with is downvoting.

Blocking a user should simply disable notifications, PM's from that user, and hide and posts/comments only for the user who blocked them. Everyone else should be free to view the dissent.

I'm thinking about writing up a greasemonkey script, or similar, so every post/comment a user makes who has blocked you gets an automatic downvote. To say this is abusive is contradictory. If the downvote button is not an "I disagree" button, then when I am forbidden from disagreeing, I should be free to downvote to my hearts content.

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The current block feature was an experiment, and after a few months of live trial, @PMYB2 and I agreed on changing its behavior when necessary.

So, we will reduce the limitation to reply to posts/comments from users who blocked you down to level 6 (360 points) which isn't that hard to reach, and will prevent trolls from using alts to flood shitcomments in posts.

https://poal.co/s/Poaldev/352266

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~~Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Are you saying that users who are level 6 and above can block other users?~~

~~I'm not sure how this addresses my concern about what is to be done when a user blocks you and your only recourse is to use the downvote in a "sinful" way.~~

Edit: I reread your announcement. As I understand, you can reply to people who blocked you if youre level 6 and above. I assume this means the user who blocked you will not be notified of your reply. I think this is a much better way to utilize the block system. Nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of a debate, just to have the faggot block you so no one can see your epic take down.

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The level 30 was put in place to prevent the fakevoat fags from shitting in all the posts when the voat migration happened a few months ago. It's not really necessary anymore since most of the cubicle shills backed the fuck off to fake voat.