The "Approved" sub-forum within "Suggestions" was changed to "Under Consideration." This does not mean the feature has been rejected, just that it is no longer a guarantied featue we will get.

This feature has been 100% confirmed! It is not fully implemented yet, but there is a temporary solution in place. You can read more about it here. Due to the feature being confirmed, the focus of this thread is no longer to convince staff that we want a block feature, but to talk about what we want this block feature to look like. The current block feature is a template, kind of, right now! Please keep this in mind when posting.

This feature has been tentatively confirmed! You can see the posts where they were confirmed in the "Mod Posts" tab. Please check them out!

Before responding to this thread with your detailed thoughts and opinions on this topic, please at least skim through the thread, and read the mod posts quoted. Many things are being repeated, making it difficult to filter through the thread, and the focus of the thread rapidly derails at times. If you have a problem with an individual user, please contact them directly or send them a Do Not Contact. Thanks for the interest, and please do your best to remain calm and respectful to both sides of the argument. If you find yourself getting frustrated and angry, take a step away from it for the time being. Cheers!

Edit; This is not needed quite as much anymore, and the questions and discussons are more open ended now! I'll be leaving this template up just in case you want to post your answers and never have before, though! I know it takes a long time to look at all of the main points and type them all up to respond to them (or even copy paste them!), so I've set up a little template that consists of Niet's main questions + longer questions. You can change this / edit it as much as you want!

just popping into rise my biggest concern that hasnt been named yet, i really dont want people who i have blocked to interact with my posts on top of not being able to pm me. the userscript isnt going to stop them instead forcing me to unhide their post so i can deal with it in threads :/

My two cents: Make PMs appear to go through, yet get filtered into a ‘spam’ inbox that doesn’t give notifications and can be optionally checked. Don’t affect the forums at all. It is a shared space and people have the right to be heard. Be the bigger person and say a polite ‘no thanks’ if someone you dislike posts in a trade shop or something. [snip]

sorry to jump in again i think editing it into my previous post would make it go under so: got a concern for the spam filter how are dncs supposed to work alongside it? lets say someone has me blocked they dont wish to see me but they unhide my trade posts or my auctions to partake occasionally because they dont mind interacting with me that way, i send a dnc, it gets filtered into the spam folder, they come into my trade shop/auction/etc. what now? they unknowingly broke the rules by doing so

what about bids placed in auctions? i cant exactly decline someones bid dueing an auction. scenario a) im asleep or otherwise afk, blocked user posts a bid, they get outbid, they bid again it goes on and the price gets higher, theyre still highest bid scenario b) blocked user outbids someone, that someone goes on to spend their money thinking they lost the auction anyways since they cant bid higher i can only see a blocking feature working for this otherwise not sure what to do

Implementing the ability to block users, or "Implementing A 'Block' Feature"

Suggestion Summary

After listening to the feedback on this thread and growing more comfortable and familiar with the PFQ community, I’ve decided to revise my suggestion. There are many good additional suggestions to this feature made throughout this thread that I may not include here, but will try and find the time another day to link in this thread. This feature would be implemented under the options bar on "About [user]," below the "⚠ Report User" button. This would say "Block User." This would bring you to a new page that outlines what a "block" will do. After this explanation, there would a drop-down box asking about why you're blocking this user. After you've selected the 'Block User' button, there would then be a pop-up asking you if you would like to also report the user you've blocked. This would link you to the traditional report page. The drop-down box would have a few options. The one's I've thought of for now are "Personal Disagreement," "Rude / Bad Attitude," "Triggering Content (Please report if against site rules)," "Harassment (Please report once you've blocked this user)," and "Other." Personal disagreement & Other would not be stored anywhere or saved. Rude / Bad Attitude could possibly be saved, like an invisible strike to a user's profile, but this veers into a different kind of suggestion, so I'll leave it. Triggering Content is one I haven't decided on yet -- I probably wouldn't have the system record it, and would instead hope that the user would report if it was against the rules. Harassment, however, I would urge to be saved in some way. I don't know if this would require staff to take action or not; if it's followed by a report, probably not. But if it's followed by nothing, maybe a staff member could reach out to said user and discuss with them. Again, this has less to do with what I want out of this suggestion, and more to do with what's realistic for staff. It would not be possible to block any staff members. Blocking users will not prevent them from interacting with you, or you from interacting with them. They will still show up in your "Open 10," "Users Online," "Clickback," and even "Pokérus." Blocking a user will cause their username to show up censored when you come across it in the future. They will be unable to send and receive trades and PMs from you. You will be unable to send and receive trades and PMs from them. (Start of 9/17/2020 edit) They will be unable to post in MOST forum threads that you have created, and you will be unable to post in MOST forum threads they have created. If you believe I have missed or mis-categorized any of these categories, please let me know! (End of 9/17/2020 edit) Their forum threads will still appear in the recent forums pages to you, and your forum threads will still appear in the recent forums pages to them. If you come across a post made by them in one of the affected forum categories, it will be in a closed hidebox titled "Post by blocked user." for you to view if you choose. If they come across a post made by you, it will be in a hidebox titled "Post made by user you've been blocked by." More... Detailed, things; This will not affect wonder trade pairing. This will not affect Pokemon's timelines. This won't affect the shelter. I don't use the marketplace too often, I find it confusing and difficult to navigate, but I would imagine that this feature wouldn't affect who can buy from who in the marketplace.

Positive points

Version 2.0 here of my suggestion takes many of the previously pointed out negatives into account and compensates for as many of them as possible. This would no longer impact gameplay and would be easier to stomach for many people who are on the fence about blocking. As per version 1.0 of this suggestion; a block feature will help users avoid people & other triggers that make them uncomfortable but aren't necessarily report worthy. This would help people to avoid their abusers & or stalkers. This could also prevent drama from escalating. In this version, it would be very difficult to abuse the block feature, from what I can tell. Similarly, while re-writing this version, I've put as much effort into making it easy to implement, and compensating for issues that staff members specifically came up with.

Negative points

Regardless of how much you tweak a suggestion, there will always be some bad. Being blocked can sting and could cause indignation and hurt. There will always be the chance for users to be upset from this. This could also be used to avoid reporting users. I've taken this into consideration and done my best to suggest ways to strongly encourage players to report users breaking rules &/or harassing others, alongside blocking said users.

Reason For Consideration

Now that the threads been around for a while, I think its important to see how many people do genuinely want this feature. It's been long debated, but over the majority seems to agree that a block feature in some way needs to be implemented. Again, even if it's not in ways I suggest, many people are for it. Take a look at the poll! Referring back to my little version 1.0; This is honestly a very widely implemented feature on many sites. It may be more confusing to implement on Pokefarm, but it's definitely not impossible. This will help many users feel more safe and comfortable on this site, and allow them to enjoy their experience here even more.

Suggestion Title

Implementing the ability to block users, or "Implementing A 'Block' Feature"

Suggestion Summary

This feature / ability, in my mind, would be implemented as an option under options bar on "About [user]." This would just say "block user." This feature would prevent this user from clicking on your profile or interacting with your profile (sending dms, trades, etc.) and vise versa. (You could not interact with their profile through clicking, dms, trades, etc). This feature would also prevent said user from showing up from clicking 'users online > open all' or 'open 10.' I personally would prefer if you could both still view one another's profile, but not interact. Of course, if it ends up being that the general user base doesn't want that viewability, I wouldn't mind either way. Also; it would not be possible to block staff members / moderators / owners.

Positive points

This feature helps with avoiding things/people that make the user personally uncomfortable, but aren't necessarily report worthy. This feature would also help with people who have personal beef with one another, as opposed to them escalating the drama

Negative points

Blocking could cause confrontation to arise and could cause some hurt.

Reason For Consideration

Most websites implement this feature with little to no issue, and it greatly enhances many peoples experiences. Personally, I use the block button on many sites very liberally to cultivate the kind of experience I want to have on a specific website. I looked for this feature before creating this thread because I discovered someone with something in their bio that made me uncomfortable, (though I do not believe it is report worthy, it's more opinionated then anything) and would really like if I could block them so I don't have to interact with them anymore.