Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Reddit users can now use the new "block user" feature to better deal with harassment. The new feature was announced Wednesday and while the site has had [a "block user"] feature for quite some time now, the new tool allows users to block other users from replies and comments in addition to private messages, which was what the old tool was limited to previously. If users click the "Block User" button when viewing a reply in their inbox, it will remove replies, comments, messages and posts from that user from your view. Admins will however still see all the messages and replies, and if you're a moderator, you can still see content from users who are blocked on the subreddits you moderate.

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Typical Response from Mental Midgets

[clonehappy]

"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"

People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.

Re:Typical Response from Mental Midgets

[RogueyWon]

The headline could just as easily have been "Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Reinforce Echo Chamber".

Re:Typical Response from Mental Midgets

[Anonymous Coward]

That's funny. I was expecting that clonehappy would get Frist Psot on this thread with some trollish comment about "Mental Midgets". I wonder whatever happened to that clown.

Re:Typical Response from Mental Midgets

[Grishnakh]

Although there is a facsimile of technical sub-reddits, most of that site is just mindless garbage so there really isn't a position to defend with any real facts.

Oh please, that's a bunch of crap. There's over a quarter-million subreddits last I heard, and most of *every* site is just mindless garbage, this site included. But with that many subreddits, it's easy to find interesting conversation, and about specialized topics. There's a subreddit about my car, for instance, if I just want to chat with people about that; a lot of posts are fairly useless, but there's some real gems here and there. It's just like anyplace else: "95% of everything is crap." (Sturgeon's Law)

People on that site don't want to "discuss" anything, they want a place where they can go to feel popular or accepted, regardless of any actual social ability.

Oh, BS. You're looking in the wrong place. Maybe you were browsing /r/HillaryClinton. Yeah, if you say anything negative about her on there, you'll be banned immediately. Go someplace else like /r/politics and you'll see all kinds of debate (and frequently not friendly...).

Every subreddit is different. They have different mods, different topics, different rules. Some are complete drivel (like Hillary's fan club subreddit), some are full of nasty arguing (/r/politics, but that's understandable given the topic and what's at stake), some are just places where people post pictures of stuff, some are really silly (like /r/PhotoshopBattles) but fun if you're into that kind of thing.

Re:Typical Response from Mental Midgets

[KozmoStevnNaut]

By "critics", you mean "basement-dwelling shut-ins who can only achieve erections by sending death threats to people they disagree with".

Ban the Block

[PopeRatzo]

Nobody has the right to not pay attention to me, so I am against this tyrannical form of Reddit sensor sheep.

Re:A more efficient solution?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think a "Block Anyone Who Disagrees With Me" button would be a lot simpler.

Re:Good

[BarbaraHudson]

And they never notice how labeling something as a micro-aggression is itself a micro-aggression. As are "safe spaces" (saying that whole classes of people can't be trusted with other classes of people) and "trigger warnings" (about as useless as writing ***SPOILER ALERT***, it just makes people more curious).

Political correctness needs to die.