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I would rather, personally, not speaking for or above anyone else:
This part right here is what's bothering me. If this is your personal opinion, then don't use the block feature. If it's not right for you, then you don't have to engage with it and use it. But many other people
NEED this feature in order to feel safe. If you personally don't agree with that feature then fine, you ARE entitled to your opinion after all. But it's starting to feel like you think your opinion is the only right one, as you're constantly in this thread talking about how you don't agree with the feature. And fine, that's okay, it's your opinion. But in MY opinion this is a good feature and I think it should expanded upon and MY opinion is just as valid as yours.
But that doesn't stop someone else, who's opinion differs from mine, from using the feature ON ME without my permission or without any communication and thus triggering me and impacting my ability to participate in this community, should the forums be affected at all.
We're each entitled to our opinions but we need to think about how our opinions impact other people. The way I see it, people can get by without this feature. We have for all the years PokeFarm has been a thing. If this feature is implemented I will not feel safe. Why the safety of likeminded individuals is more important than my own safety in the eyes of people who claim to be so caring, i will never understand. I've proposed many compromises over the course of this thread to try and balance the safety needs of both sides.
I feel like my safety in this community is in jeapardy. And that's why im so vocal, because if no one else will speak in my defense I will have to speak for myself. THATS why I am here.
I don't mean to offend you by saying this but how is anything regarding you put in jeopardy because of other people not wishing to interact with you? As it stands, currently, this feature just hides names and threads/posts you may make for the person who has you blocked, if there even are any as there's really no way to know for sure.
As you've mentioned yourself, people have gotten by without this, and the only difference is they'd have to see your name, or your posts, or your threads. This doesn't hinder anything on your side at all anymore than it may have before it was implemented, it's literally just a visual change.
If you sent a PM to someone who did not wish to interact with you, they wouldn't answer. If you posted in someones thread who did not wish to interact with you, they wouldn't answer. Now they just don't need to see it along with not wanting to do it, you know? You mention people using the block feature on you without your "permission" but it's purely a visual change if I'm not wrong, and like I said people could already do everything they can now before it was added, which is basically just ignore you (hypothetically of course I'm not saying there's people who have you blocked and don't wish to interact with you), the only thing this brings is not needing to see your name as well. Please somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but... is it not just a visual change?
You could already ignore users before this was added. Or send them DNC requests which could be followed up with reports if they were not heeded. I'm genuinely struggling to see the arguments you're making I'm afraid.
Your opinions and views are still valid but I'm just not personally seeing how they're negatively being affected by this at this moment in time.
