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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7539832" data-attributes="member: 16814">The argument for going back to ignore is that it's pretty much the same from the user's side and doesn't break the boards.The counterargument would be that preventing someone else from seeing your posts is a large enough benefit to justify the broken functionalities.  I haven't seen this argument made, yet.To be fair, the block functionality can be used to bully.  Look at how some use it to control access to popular threads and think they should have that power.  Weak tea, sure, but it's currently a tool that can be used to silence opposing voices in entire threads if the OP chooses to use it that way.  Personally, it's not widespread, it's a niche case, and the person who's done it to me doesn't bother me -- I, again, think it reflects on him more than me.</blockquote>