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Seriously cause this is getting annoying

if this is a question about other online feedism spaces, there was a thread on that recently:

fantasyfeeder.com/forum/posts

if it's an issue with blocking here, maybe post it in the feedback/suggestions forum.

Ok thanks bro. I made a suggestion forum already. But I’ll check out the link you shared

Good luck with that. The site owner doesn't believe in blocking as a concept. We had to plead our case to have more than 15 blocks for unpaid accounts. And blocking still isn't unlimited. It's 100 blocks.

As I understand it, the site owner believes that if everyone blocks everyone, we won't have a sense of community on this site.

Exhibit A, Admins. Exhibit A

This site is like decades old I don't think the administration will be convinced of fixing anything

i think the comments about the age of this site, changes and moderation are a little unfair. there are a number of active mods, and there have been a bunch of updates over the last couple of years.

are there still bugs and quirks, sure. i almost enjoy the occasional "chat leak" now.

munchies' note re: blocking reducing community engagement got me thinking about the "format" of a site, and how that influences how users interact. for instance, this site is primarily message, forum & chat driven. blocking in regards to personal messages and chat seems pretty straightforward, but in a forum situation it becomes more complex. especially when threads sometimes are active for years!

when i think of social media, i think of x, bluesky and feabie - posts are made, they can be shared, re-shared, and they are not dispersed and not cohesive. comments can be made on the share of the post, and never relate back to the source, etc. in that situation, blocking is much more important because you want to exclude someone's material from your "feed" which is curated by an algorithm. whereas in a forum you just don't open the thing and ignore the thread.

there is another forum that i frequent that has one active participant that i find really annoying. (i am sure others think they're great, not judging - just my taste.) whenever i see they are the last to respond to a thread, i just bypass it. i ignore it. i am not interested.

so i kind of understand the webmaster's stance - what would blocking do our forum? there was one troublesome user some time ago (initials: j.s.) who, i believe was banned from the site. so as long as these individuals are being dealt with, i would say i think it works, doesn't it?

The guy with The Weekend pfp? He was before my time, but he was ... insane. Very glad we never met because we would probably scrap.

This site needs a fresh overhaul. It is very outdated and crumbling by the week. Chat was promised to be fixed last year, now this year and it's slated for "late this year." Believe it when it happens. We have new bots and scammers joining daily using vpn's which are blocked yet there is a workaround somehow.

People go off site and find out the hard way they are being scammed. There has to be a way to modernize a site like this where a block button works. What makes no sense is when you block someone but if you are following them you still get their updates. Like what?! Makes no sense.

Yeah, blocking doesn't automatically unfollow them. Gotta click on the house icon at the top of the page.