A restraining order is something a judge grants. That’d be a moderator or administrator in the context of the Threadiverse, and they do have the ability to prevent people from posting. Bringing something to their attention is what the “report” link is for, it’s their decision after that.
I remain firm in my opinion that giving everybody the ability to unilaterally apply restraining orders to everybody they want to for whatever reason they want to leads to bad outcomes. That’s how Reddit does it and it’s pretty badly broken over there.
This is a public forum. If you post to a public forum, you should expect your posts to be public. If you’re posting something you don’t want to be public, all I can say to you is that this isn’t the right platform for that.
its not but minorities its “based on this discussion I had about privacy and anti-harassment needs that minorities need”.
harassment is bad. minorities are especially vulnerable to harassment.
reporting is good, but reporting is only one tool
the current “block” tool doesn’t actually blocks, it mutes
that is confusing to users, who are surprised when they block a harasser that the harasser is still harassing them out of sight.
It’d be nice if, in addition to the report tool, and the mute tool, if there was a tool that could stop someone who is causing you mental anguish from doing so directly in your comments.
because people who are scared of the comments aren’t going to post\
we need more tools to combat harassment
a tool where you can stop someone from commenting on your content is a good self-service tool that is low-enough-impact that a mod doesn’t need to be involved, because it doesn’t affect the community itself.
and at the very least, what OP is saying is reasonable. that is confusing AF, the person you’ve blocked isn’t blocked from doing anything, the blocker is just hamstrung
Just telling us “but someone else told me it’s bad” contributes nothing to the current conversation if you cannot tell us anything about that discussion.
Giving every user access to a type of power that is known to be abusable is not a good solution. As I said at the start, we’ve seen this with Reddit. We’ve seen why this is not the right way.
The engagement between the two of you is over. He’s saying stuff to other people now, not to you.
You want to control what they see and do? No, you don’t get to decide that for other people.
If you don’t want to lose your ability to see what they’re saying then don’t block them.
That’s not how harassment works.
I think you know that, too.
Consider it a restraining order.
A restraining order is something a judge grants. That’d be a moderator or administrator in the context of the Threadiverse, and they do have the ability to prevent people from posting. Bringing something to their attention is what the “report” link is for, it’s their decision after that.
I remain firm in my opinion that giving everybody the ability to unilaterally apply restraining orders to everybody they want to for whatever reason they want to leads to bad outcomes. That’s how Reddit does it and it’s pretty badly broken over there.
It being broken over there doesn’t make it not broken over here.
Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?
This is a public forum. If you post to a public forum, you should expect your posts to be public. If you’re posting something you don’t want to be public, all I can say to you is that this isn’t the right platform for that.
thats exactly the take i used to have, until it was explained to me how harmful that is to persecuted minorities and drives them off the platform.
I evidently cannot do a good job of explaining why that would be the case and (apparently) why thats even a problem, but I believe it is.
Well, you haven’t even tried to explain it. You’ve just been saying “but minorities” over and over while refusing to elaborate.
there are so many threads.
its not but minorities its “based on this discussion I had about privacy and anti-harassment needs that minorities need”.
harassment is bad. minorities are especially vulnerable to harassment.
reporting is good, but reporting is only one tool
the current “block” tool doesn’t actually blocks, it mutes
that is confusing to users, who are surprised when they block a harasser that the harasser is still harassing them out of sight.
It’d be nice if, in addition to the report tool, and the mute tool, if there was a tool that could stop someone who is causing you mental anguish from doing so directly in your comments.
because people who are scared of the comments aren’t going to post\
we need more tools to combat harassment
a tool where you can stop someone from commenting on your content is a good self-service tool that is low-enough-impact that a mod doesn’t need to be involved, because it doesn’t affect the community itself.
and at the very least, what OP is saying is reasonable. that is confusing AF, the person you’ve blocked isn’t blocked from doing anything, the blocker is just hamstrung
Just telling us “but someone else told me it’s bad” contributes nothing to the current conversation if you cannot tell us anything about that discussion.
Giving every user access to a type of power that is known to be abusable is not a good solution. As I said at the start, we’ve seen this with Reddit. We’ve seen why this is not the right way.