They won't know who is blocking them if the individual user is able to block other users.
You're right about them just making another account. But, they won't know to make another account unless they've been site-wide banned by the admins.
Poal has to try something different to combat these types of trolls. It happened to Reddit and Voat and all those sites did was ban users when they caused a problem. AOU and PMYB2 want to avoid sending Poal down the same path.
They don't need to know who blocked them. They can just make new accounts every 10 or 20 submissions anyway.
When people started to ask for a block user function and it reaches the frontpage don't you think everyone knows whom it's meant for? How come that poal could do just fine without one until now?
But, they won't know to make another account unless they've been site-wide banned by the admins.
They'll know that they need to make new accounts to continuously piss off people who block them and demand further action or discussion on the frontpage about them.
On a related note would you defend someone making a new account every time they post as free speech?
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