For example if you would block someone, they could not reply on this/my post here, because it's based on yours.
Helps things from escalating I guess.
If that user doesn't have many people blocking them, then this will barely affect the votes. If they have tonnes of blockers, then would indicate that they probably deserved it, and the downvotes would make sense anyway.
It would prevent echo chambers from forming.
If you are on a bigger forum, block a few because you just don't want to see their posts. Or they are bots. Suddenly you have huge problems on small subreddits.
And I don't see a huge benefit to it. People clean up their block list maybe? But for what.
if the sub is small, then 5 blockers might be significant.
I suppose the arguments regarding the bot accounts are valid, as it allows for manipulation. Presumably reddit should be blocking bots, but of course that's wishful thinking.
This would also create a tool to cast target people to oblivion.
The real question is to ask what is the real problem. I understand that an online places can be gritty because of incivilities, but a dogme is much more scarier to me than an online idiot.
However if it can't be disproven and you actually convince some people, it will be flagged. And maybe even some people stalk your account and bait you into getting frustrated and then getting your account nuked.
This is why 4chan etc are more intellectually honest imo as you can't nearly as easily censor or rule ban someone who makes a vile but persuasive argument.
So many argumentative and divisive people who seem to get the last word all the time. Now I know what I'm looking at. They just answer and block. Makes me think even less of them.
Or was last I used it. Maybe that has changed.
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Rage blocking. Is deffo a thing!
I imagine its to stop someone from stalking the list of recent comments the person made, and immediately reply to every one.
You can use it as a way to evict people from the discussion.