Greetings.
I hope this was taken up before as well, but I believe was not corrected at that time because of developer time constraints, if I remember correctly.
However I guess the issue needs to be taken up again and needs a reconsideration from the respected admins.
My concern here is that when a member is blocked on lush, he/she should not be able to view any of the content of the one who blocked them. I would feel better that the both of them be invisible to each other, especially in the forums, where both can see each other, though not the content of the post. Which can well be viewed by "quoting" the respective post.
Hope that it is resolved this time.
Thank you.
Regards.
Zaman, A.
Why? If you can't read their posts, what difference does it make?
Never heard of a block feature that stops the blocked person from seeing the blocker's posts. I admin a board that runs on Xenforo, which is as bog-standard as board software comes, and its Ignore feature blocks the user from seeing the target but not the reverse (which would, among other things, let the target know they were being ignored and I don't always want someone that I'm ignoring to know that I am). IIRC, vBulletin, once the 500 lb gorilla of commercial board software and maybe it still is, is similar.
I suspect part of the problem here is semantics. "Block" implies something stronger than "Ignore" (putting up a barrier vs. just turning away) and, yet, Lush's "Block" is basically the same as Xenforo's "Ignore". Maybe a rename rather than a change in functionality so we're clear on what is happening?
For every person that's blocked, there's someone who uses some backdoor or rogue account to find out what's going on. Use the block feature to filter the noise of whatever they have to say from your life and forget about them.
As a general practice, I assume everyone will read what I post so I don't say anything on the forums that I don't want the world to know.
If you're being stalked, or someone is making libelous claims about you (both legal terms) that's another matter entirely. Otherwise, what are you worried about the blocked person learning or doing with what you post?
If I block someone, it's because I don't want to read their posts. Yet of someone quote's them in a reply, I can still see it. I was told this was going to be referred to someone who could investigate and perhaps come up with an improvement.
We'll see how it goes.
The people of The United States want socialism. The people of Venezuela want toilet paper.
A recent article in "The Miami Herald" reveals that the food shortages caused by the economic collapse in Venezuela have had at least one positive side effect. Whereas before Venezuelans were having problems being overrun by herds of wild burros (donkeys), they've solved the problem by eating them. Now they have no burros or toilet paper.
I actually like this way of blocking.
I have no idea if anyone has blocked me and I don't miss any part of a conversation if you did. On Twitter, it takes me right out of a conversation sometimes.
If someone is abusive, report them. Otherwise, who cares who sees what you write? You're in a public forum. A hundred people you don't know are also reading your posts.
