Re: 1), my employer's slack has just under one million members. I do not know all of them.
But in any case, why would knowing someone you interact with make you less likely to block them?
But in any case, why would knowing someone you interact with make you less likely to block them?
I can't fathom the idea of coworkers blocking each other in digital tools and pretending like that's a solution to anything.
If someone is reducing the S/N of a large channel then it is a culture problem that needs to be solved by the management. I have seen a few Slack dramas like that in companies I worked with (e.g. a person trolling), and it wasn't difficult to solve. Letting team members to arbitrarily block each other seems insane to me from a company standpoint.
There are 850,000 people on my work Slack. I do not need to talk to all of them, much less read what all of them have to say.
> What's next, jumping off the daily standup call for a while when a colleague you have a problem with is speaking?
No that's not next, and I think the goalposts you're looking for are way back over here.
I don't disagree that Slack can be a vector for "culture" problems. I don't see why it follows that employees should be deprived very simple tools that allow them to fix the symptoms themselves if their employer disagrees or doesn't care.