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Whose user experience is it degrading? The blocker or the person who behaved in such a way that they got blocked?

Mostly the blockee. Although I think it also devalues the service for some/many blockers.

If I had a Twitter account and blocked someone, it would be with the intention of devaluing the service for them. Someone who was awful enough that I bothered blocking them would devalue my service if they could keep annoying me.

There's a lot of unnecessary blocking.

An example of blockers losing value: Tesla bears were chronic blockers, even passing around blocklists. Nowadays Tesla bears seem to have lost all relevance.

> "The blocker or the person who behaved in such a way that they got blocked?"

People get blocked for all kinds of reasons, most of them relatively innocent.

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