Hi reddit peoples!

You may remember me from a few weeks ago when I gave an update on user blocking. Thank you to everyone who gave feedback about what is and isn’t working about blocking. The stories and examples many of you shared helped identify a few ways blocking should be improved. Today, based on your feedback, we’re happy to share three new updates to blocking. Let’s get to it…

Update #1: Preventing people from using blocking to shut down conversations

In January, we changed the tool so that when you block someone, they can’t see or respond to any of your comment threads. We designed blocking to prevent harassment, but we see that we have also opened up a way for users to shut down conversations.

Today we’re shipping a change so that users aren’t locked out of an entire comment thread when a user blocks them, and can reply to some embedded replies (i.e., the replies to your replies). We want to find the right balance between protecting redditors from being harassed while keeping conversations open. We’ll be testing a range of values, from the 2nd to 15th-level reply, for how far a thread continues before a blocked user can participate. We’ll be monitoring how this change affects conversations as we determine how far to turn this ‘knob’ and exploring other possible approaches. Thank you for helping us get this right.

Update #2: Fixing bugs

We have fixed two notable bugs:

1. When you block someone in the same thread as you, your comments are now always visible in your profile.
2. Blocking on old Reddit works the same way as it does on the rest of the platform now. We fixed an issue on old Reddit that was causing the block experience to sometimes revert back to the old version, and other times it would be a mix of the new and the old experience.

If you see any bugs, please keep reporting them! Your feedback helps keep reddit a great place for everyone to share, discuss, and debate — (What kind of world would we live in if we couldn’t debate the worst concert to go to if band names were literal?)

Update #3: People want more controls over their experience

We are exploring new features that will enable more ways for you to filter unwanted content, and generally provide you with more control over what you see on Reddit. Some of the concepts we are thinking about include:

• Community muting: filters communities from feeds, recommendations, and notifications
• Word filters: allows users to proactively establish words they don’t want to see
• Topic filters: allows users to tune what types of topics they don’t want to see
• User muting: allows users to filter out unwanted content without resorting to anti-harassment tools, such as blocking

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports so far. This has been a complex feature to get right, but we are committed to doing so. We’ll be sticking around for a bit to answer questions and respond to feedback.

That is, if you have not blocked us already.