FrogReaver
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Let's say we have 2 users that other both total jerks to everyone. I fully agree in that case. But there's another common use case of users that are only jerks to those that are being jerks to them. And it's that use case that is being ignored in this.Yes - but the point is that with two habitually abusive posters it's not a ranking of which is worse. If we can identify either of them and get them to clean up, we've made the boards a better place.
Anything someone does or even how others react to them is an indicator about them. The question is what does that indicate. I'm suggesting it doesn't indicate what is being claimed. That alot of blocks can be but isn't necessarily an indicator of a jerk.So it's not really a ranking of "who is worse" - if someone gets in arguments with many others and gets blocked a lot, that's is an indicator about them.
Consider this scenario. The person with 130 blocks may never block other users but will reply in kind to them up to a certain extent. If those 130 people that blocked him are jerks and the guy that was blocked that many times was never a jerk to anyone else, then I wouldn't call him a jerk or a problem that needs cleaned up. Cleaning up the actual jerks will resolve any hint of jerkness from him as he's just being a 'counter jerk'.And when you're looking at 130 blocks, that's a large range of people. Even if that one person never blocked, those 130 - if they are repeat offenders - will have been blocked by some of the other 130, whom we do know do block people.