This idea is silly,

All that would happen if this was implemented, is said blocked person would then go create his own thread, to reply to the one he was blocked from.

you would in effect just split up 1 topic into two (or more) threads.
sure, you could CHOOSE to ignore the second thread.
but nothing stops you from ignoring the POST from said person in your thread right now.

so in effect, the only difference this change would make, is that the forums would become ALLOT messier.

HOORAY FOR ONLINE CENSORSHIP!

AMERICA. READ IT AND WEEP

yeah i'll just make shit suggestions and block anyone who disagrees

this is a terrible idea

There's a difference between anti-censorship in regards to somebody cursing left and right and somebody having a difference of opinion. In all honesty, I don't know what situation you're exactly referring to. On a personal level, cursing is fine to me, it doesn't bother me one bit, but as an administrator, there's a certain point (usually at the discretion at multiple administrators/moderators) where cursing becomes a bit excessive (as it states in the guidelines to refrain from).

If you guys are so anti censornsor ship what about when that butthurt kid was cursing like a sailor?

Forums and the internet alike are/is a place for people to talk as a collective. Once you grant that sort of power to general users (not saying they're any less valuable to the community of course), you open a can of worms where it will only fuel more problems. People will obviously block users from commenting on their threads, which will lead to others becoming personally offended/mad at the original poster for doing so. This could possibly (more than likely) lead to alt-accounts being created for the sole purpose of attempting to bypass those restrictions.

Along with the obvious lengths users will go to in order to bypass this kind of restrictions, keep in mind that not all discussions are passive. Whether this is intended by the original poster varies. Debate is good (when done maturely, which is wishful thinking on a public internet forum). If you only permit certain users to discuss your topic, chances are there won't be much debate and when that happens, things tend to get stale.

I am personally a very anti-censorship advocate so I may be a bit biased towards this whole thing, but that's just my input. Blocking users from posting should be a method that should be exposed purely to administrators for the sake of keeping the forums in the best shape they possibly can in my opinion. Granting the power of censorship to everyone is not a good way to compensate for where administrators and moderators fail to handle situations, or miss them entirely.

The forums are a community. The community is made of people. Those people are human beings (though some may claim the contrary for trolls). People have feelings and are likely going to be offended or feel offended by something and will attempt to defend themselves and their views accordingly. Once you start taking that right away, it only causes more problems and gives the community a bad vibe. Distributed power doesn't mean less conflict.

I don't see anything like this happening. The internet is full of debate, conflict, and trolls. Censorship isn't a valid form of justification to try and prevent these things. Power like that should be left to a selected few who will oversee the community in it's entirety and deal with queries provided by users according in a mature and reasonable manner, not based on personal grudges.

Well this IS the Internet. Flaming/ Trolling/ Insults in any way should NEVER be taken seriously here. :/

"Say someone is publicly attacked by false statements, then you block them when they try to defend themselves..."

Why does one need to "defend" themselves online? Let the mods handle it.

If you're so shallow as to allow someone flaming you online to actually get to you, you probably need to shut your computer off and go get some sun.

In any case like that, Drewgon, the person is likely flamebaiting/trolling anyway, and responding to it would be detrimental to yourself and just make you look bad.

The best case scenario is if obvious trolling/flamebaiting were punishable by temporary banishment from the forums.

Then again, sometimes people lose their cool. An outlet for strong emotions against someone is immature, but the idea of not allowing people to protect themselves in a thread is not right.

@camel
I am chinese and in china
I am offended.

The only people that would open a thread just to talk shit about somebody are the people we don't need on these forums.

I'd imagine that the feature would be useful for takin' out trolls.

But, well, I think it's a tad too restrictive overall.

No. We aren't China.

And this thread was going well until Devas dropped in.

>block someone

>provoke and talk shit while they're powerless

This is a bad idea, it would quickly back fire. Say someone is publicly attacked by false statements, then you block them when they try to defend themselves. It would cause serious issues the moment it happens.

I support this 100%.

These forums aren't a democracy.

-10 points to OP. You gotta have freedom of speech on the threads. If you want a private conversation, use PMs.

how about we just have the listed people be blocked to the creator only

The administrators aren't lenient at all. Remember how they were back then when we didn't have rules? ;)

Have you seen this feature on other forums?

It's a public forum, when you post something, it's public.

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

All of this could be averted if the administrators were simply not so lenient. Giving people 5+ warnings before any real punishment ensues doesn't set a good example for new members, who think they can get away with all the trolling they want.

One forum I was on had something along these lines, but it was an ignore function that made it so it hid their posts. It was very ineffective, you could choose to view the post, and people would comment back to the blocked post so to know what was going on you'd HAVE to read their post.

Or you can put on your big boy pants and ignore them instead of making a bunch of pointless threads. You've created 2 threads so far that promote hatred towards a member of the community and you just triple posted. I think you're the bad guy here.

@SLAYER,

If I dont want someone to comment on my threads, to talk to me, then I should have the right to stop them from coming over and interrupting my thread, to be an asshole.

@سيروا تقودو يا ولاد القحا

Explain how this would prevent ideas emerging?

There's still no point to having blacklists other than "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE". It is unfair to exclude someone from a thread because you feel like it.

Are you kidding? Do you realize what you're doing?
You're going to prevent great ideas from emerging, and the truth to be revealed, just because you have petty forum issues with other people!