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That's mute. Block prevents the blocked user from seeing your tweets from logged in contexts and ability to reply to any of your tweets and so on. That it sort
by maxerickson 5y ago
That's mute.
Block prevents the blocked user from seeing your tweets from logged in contexts and ability to reply to any of your tweets and so on. That it sort of curates a feed by limiting replies can go in both directions of course.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoWhy would anyone want to block, rather than mute? I suppose it's more 'honest' in some ways but the implementation as described almost feels designed to create drama. Is it easier to block or to mute? Which one is the de facto default in the UI?
- sangnoir 5y agoMute is self-curation by the author. Whereas Block is the closest thing to moderation for ones' followers. People have different thresholds for both actions.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThis makes sense, kind of like kicking someone from a chat room or subreddit you control because that's not the kind of discussion you want. It seems most people who use twitter don't understand this though.
- vkou 5y agoSuppose that a deranged lunatic gets his hundreds of followers to dogpile you every time you tweet. If you mute him, you'll still have him and his hundreds of friends shitting in your feed. If you block him, he won't see your tweets, and you've raised the effort he has to put in if he wants to shit in your feed. Some people will put that effort in, others won't.