I like this suggestion, and I’d honestly love to see this go along with it.

Blocking already helps in some ways, but I feel like it should go further. If someone is blocked, they shouldn’t still be able to search you, open your profile, look through your groups or picks, or keep finding ways to interact with you.

To me, blocking should mean there is a full boundary there. Not just “I can’t hear you anymore,” but “you no longer have access to me.”

So yes, I support the current suggestion, but I’d also like to see blocking include profile and search privacy too. If someone is blocked, they shouldn’t be able to keep looking you up, watching your profile, or using it to track or bother you.

Besides, all the blocked person has to do is pay you $1 L and they become unblocked. Idk when that feature happened, but LL needs to get rid of that one.

There's also another problem with making a blocked person disappear from your view: even though blocked and derendered, what they write appears in my chat if someone present in the land is wearing a translator that sends everything written in chat through a script.

I personally feel this should not be an option at a click of a button, if I block someone, then I am more than happy at my end, at the end of the day I have my settings so that I do not have cross hairs on me or anything. There are more choices to enable a block from your own side that will lessen your personal anxiety levels, but, unfortunately even in the real world, no matter what someone has done, you cannot remove their rights as a person without a court of law being involved. So, there are many things you can still do to protect yourself in world. You can check on radar who is on the sim to start with, if your blocked person is around, you will see their name and you have the choice to leave and go back later. They cannot follow you to another sim, they only know where you are if you gave them permissions to do so. I feel if it is of a very serious nature, which can be avoided with simple setting changes, then only Lindens should be able to initiate a two-way block upon evidence being submitted. Many complain that Lindens do not do anything, but then again what is considered of a serious nature to one person is not to another so guidelines of what is considered a Linden intervention would have to be set out. Before anyone jumps on the bandwagon of me protecting the "bad person" you are wrong, I have had stalking issues, griefers and many other things in SL, but I have taken steps to avoid it becoming a huge problem by simple changes to my set up.

okay so for one blocking does not alert the other person unless they message you which means in group settings you can block people doing stuff in public and they will never know hence avoiding drama, your idea would mean they know you have blocked them just by seeing your avatar suddenly go grey, also easy solution for your friend disable look at cross hairs seriously she only knows someone is looking at her cuss she can see the viewing cross hairs, just disable the ability to see cross hairs and she can get on with her day she is litrally letting a setting she can disable cause her discomfort.

if I'm a combat region and I block them to make myslef invisible to them that would destroy the combat region

I think this is a idea.

SOCIAL ISOLATION:

It enables a new form of social exclusion, whereby two or more people can block a user to isolate them from being able to participate with a group.

This will turn all town square environments into toxic environments where having the wrong opinions can get you excluded.

It will have a chilling effect on the ability to exchange ideas and speak freely in Second Life.

ADMINISTRATION HEADACHE:

Somebody who wants to cause trouble can block the sim administrator. Now the admin has no idea they are causing trouble for other guests.

In general I think this ability does more HARM than good for Second Life's social environment, and is likely to lead to a much more toxic culture.

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Choosing to cover your own ears is a personal choice. As is choosing where you hang out and with whom.

Choosing to cover someone else's ears is not a personal choice. You are taking away someone else's natural abilities. It is oppressive and abusive in and of itself.

Dupe of https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/the-ability-to-have-those-that-you-block-also-not-see-your-chat-or-hear-you

Agreed 100% - anyone harassing others should be stopped from seeing their victim, their victim's chat, their entire ability to interact with their victim (even at a distance). In other words, I don't even believe a criminal should even be able to open their victim's profile. It should END completely, no exceptions. Harsh, I know, but all too often in this world lately do we see criminals getting special treatment while victims are left to the ongoing victimization. Enough is enough. LL. Please END this madness.