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Announcing Blocking Updates
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Hello peoples (and bots) of Reddit,

I come with a very important and exciting announcement from the Safety team. As a continuation of our blocking improvements, we are rolling out a revamped blocking experience starting today. You will begin to see these changes soon.

What does “revamped blocking experience” mean?

We will be evolving the blocking experience so that it not only removes a blocked user’s content from your experience, but also removes your content from their experience—i.e., a user you have blocked can’t see or interact with you. Our intention is to provide you with better control over your safety experience. This includes controlling who can contact you, who can see your content, and whose content you see.

What will the new block look like?

It depends if you are a user or a moderator and if you are doing the blocking vs. being blocked.

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How is this different from before?

Previously, if I blocked u/IAmABlockedUser, I would not see their content, but they would see mine. With the updated blocking experience, I won’t see u/IAmABlockedUser’s content and they won’t see mine either. We’re listening to your feedback and designed an experience to meet users’ expectations and the intricacies of our platform.

Important notes

To prevent abuse, we are installing a limit so you cannot unblock someone and then block them again within a short time frame. We have also put into place some restrictions that will prevent people from being able to manipulate the site by blocking at scale.

It’s also worth noting that blocking is not a replacement for reporting policy breaking content. While we plan to implement block as a signal for potential bad actors, our Safety teams will continue to rely on reports to ensure that we can properly stop and sanction malicious users. We're not stopping the work there, either—read on!

What's next?

We know that this is just one more step in offering a robust set of safety controls. As we roll out these changes, we will also be working on revamping your settings and finding additional proactive measures to reduce unwanted experiences.

So tell us: what kind of safety controls would you like to see on Reddit? We will stick around to chat through ideas as well as answer your questions or feedback on blocking for the next few hours.

Thanks for your time and patience in reading this through! Cat tax:

Oscar Wilde, the cat, reclining on his favorite reddit snoo pillow

edit (update): Hey folks! Thanks for your comments and feedback. Please note that while some of you may see this change soon, it may take some time before the changes to blocking become available on for everyone on all platforms. Thanks for your patience as we roll out this big change!

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Also; the previous announcement seemed to imply that "true block" would be an additional and optional form of blocking, rather than completely removing the previous blocking method; but this announcement suggests that not to be the case? Has this option been dropped from this feature, or was it never intended to work that way?

One of the major benefits of the previous blocking method was that blocked users could never determine if they are blocked, which was a benefit in many cases.. This type of blocking rather overtly reveals when you have blocked someone.

In the previous announcement, it was mentioned that replies to your posts/comments from people who have blocked you would still be visible to you, to ensure that malicious users can't hide their harassment from the target user by blocking them after posting harassing comments against them; but it doesn't seem to be clearly mentioned here. Can you clarify whether or not that is the case, or if this is prevented in some other way, as it seems like an important point to make?

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We want to get recommended to people who are interested, of course. But currently, there is no way for specific people to get rid of these recommendations if they don't like them; I'm proposing that blocking would be a potential solution to this, and for hiding any subreddits in general one doesn't want to see for whatever reason.

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I mod some places that some users don't want to see, but for some reason Reddit still keeps suggesting us to them or something, which leads to complaints and even trolling in the mistaken belief that them getting banned will hide the content. Blocking subs would be a useful thing we could suggest to users who don't want to see our content.

I think the idea would be that blocking a sub would make it appear not to exist at all. It and its posts wouldn't get recommended, it would be excluded from any feeds, searches, or Related Communities sidebars, and it would say it's blocked when visited. Potentially cross-posts from blocked subs could also be hidden as well, to completely remove all traces they exist.

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