Please Introduce A Two-Way Mute/Block To SL Forums
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SarahKB7 Koskinen
Please introduce a two-way mute/block feature to the SL Forums urgently.
At the present, muting/blocking is only single way at the moment, meaning someone you've blocked can still read your posts and react back at them potentially with negative comments that you won't see, because you've blocked them, which means the mute/block is pointless.
Some people's Forum behaviour is so bad or annoying that they just need or deserve to be completely isolated from reading and reacting to Forum posts made by someone who they've been muted/blocked by.
Also, remove the "Confused" emoji reaction, as it's being deliberately misused and weaponised by blocked people as a "negative" emoji weapon to affect a persons SL Forum Reputation score.
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The forums are a public place where discussions happen, introducing a two-way block would create the ability for one user to push another user out of a discussion by creating fragmented discussions or conversations that are hard to follow, or even prevent them from participating in a discussion entirely (such as if the forum post was created by the user).
While I do agree that the forums have trolls and people who could be better mannered, completely isolating another user from a public discussion isn't the right solution. If someone is being abusive, this seems like something that would be better addressed through moderators, rather than making the block feature affect another person's ability to participate.
I do agree that the "Confused" emoji is basically used as a downvote emoji. I've received it a couple of times myself. However, it doesn't really affect forum reputation that much, and the "Laugh" emoji is used in much the same way. Given that, I still don't think removing these reactions would necessarily make the situation better.