the block function should also be allowed on the boards

Eternal Torment·4/5/2017, 8:03:27 PM·4 votes·398 views

so the boards ecspecially the PB&M section is known for it's content of either far too neutral people or far too emotional and toxic individuals aswell as the fair share of trolls and people who actually simply are unknowing of the littlest Things. so after some thinking i wanted to know:

Would it not be a good idea to allow blocking on the boards aswell? it prevents 2 Players who per say have a toxic relationship to each others from seeing each others on The boards by disabling their visibility of each other's respective threads, disables commenting on each others on other people's threads and also if you somehow find a Loop and get into that blocked person's post disables commenting on their Posts aswell.

while i do understand that there will be a massive abuse from this by trolls and people who just wanna rant for attention instead of talking some ingame context, i do think it would help settle Things. whoever watches the german EUW boards can make the most personal experiences of lasting grudges that goes into an infinite Loop of call Outs and Insults, and on the na boards thought much rarer it also does occur that 2 people seek each others out purely for bashing and create an troll in themselves just to tilt the other individual. it makes talking about Things that bother us or Things we simply dont like very difficult and Overall gives an unwanted challenge to the boards in Terms of honesty and choice of words.

what do you guys think? would it help? or would there be more damage than good?

12 Comments

Deep Terror Nami4/5/2017, 8:13:34 PM2 votes

While they don't have a high priority on boards development atm so this type of feature may not happen in the near future, you can get a blocking feature which hides all of a person's posts through the Forum Enhancement Kit (FEK). You can't prevent them from posting but you can avoid seeing them.

However, completely blocking someone from making comments on your threads is extremely unlikely to happen; this is a public forum, it's meant for community discussion which this does not support. Letting you choose who can post on your comments is just an extreme form of censorship that can and would be severely abused (people would just block everyone that disagrees with them so their threads would appear as if everyone was on their side).

If someone is being a jerk, do not respond to them. If someone is harassing you, report it. If moderation isn't able to see what's going on and doesn't take care of posts that violate the rules, head over to the moderation Discord here so you can provide context to your reports privately.

Magical Player4/5/2017, 8:07:26 PM1 votes

It'd be used to make 2 camps Party A and Party B

Everyone who agrees with riot and Everyone who disagrees with riot

Just my thought weather thats good or bad, im not sure

SSJTribe4/5/2017, 8:09:09 PM1 votes

I'm not sure what you mean by someone being "far too neutral". That's kind of an oxymoron don't you think? http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/9/90/Neutropolis.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090321023427

Anyway, yeah blocking should probably exist on any forum.