Is it normal to wonder how the new block feature works?

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I just noticed it. Is it just for messaging, or for posts too? Do you guys know?

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    How can I view comments from Zorak? Where has Zorak gone?

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    • itsamistake
      6 years ago | pl

      He was banned I think as he was following around the idiot troll user who uses the name the consortium, and harrassing him. Funnily enough said user did not like getting his own treatment back to him and reported him to management.

      Obviously management must like this user as he continues to let him follow and harrass other users with his different 50 alts.

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    • Zorak
      6 years ago

      Hey can you see this comment? If not this is the last comment I am going to make on the forum and continue to only use the member chat feature. I believe my comments are still readable but when you click my username it goes directly to a dead page. Yes this happened after I followed around a mega troll who uses multiple accounts to sexually harrass charli.m and other users including me for multiple years.

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      • charli.m
        6 years ago

        He harrasses her, too.

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        • Zorak
          6 years ago

          Notice how "Benedict" completely changed his tune and began sucking up to u d i and bragging about his imaginary corporate software jobs? Then logs into one of his other alts almost that same hour to harrass you and play mind games some more? I have no words...LOL. Delusional.

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      • itsamistake
        6 years ago

        You this totally sucks. I was watching you following this idiot and commenting on all his alts (which was funny by the way), and then he went crying like a little baby to Udi. Like I said before he can dish it out but he can't take it.

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      • RoseIsabella
        6 years ago

        I support you, and there is no reason for you to be banned.

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      • dirtybirdy
        6 years ago

        I can see this comment and also your profile...

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        • Zorak
          6 years ago

          GOOD.

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    • Brak
      6 years ago

      Bring back zorak! #bluegatorade

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      • RoseIsabella
        6 years ago

        How's Space Ghost Coast to Coast?

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        • RoseIsabella
          6 years ago

          ... and on the eighth day God made Gatoade, and it was was good.

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          • Zorak
            6 years ago

            Don't worry my spirit will live on.

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    • Zorak
      6 years ago

      My account is back to normal.

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      • McBean
        6 years ago

        Whew, I was worried about you. Glad you're back.

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        • Zorak
          6 years ago

          Bend over, spread your butt cheeks apart and cough please.

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          • McBean
            6 years ago

            You offer is rather friendly. Would you like to be friends?

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            • TheManagement
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              6 years ago

              Both of you need to stop this or I'll have to ban both of you. Please stop. Block each other.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    6 years ago

    Test post here, I tried to comment a minute ago and could not submit. Let's see if this works.

    **Edit** Yay!

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  • itsamistake
    6 years ago

    Also I have noticed that Udi's defence statement of fuckface has seem to have disappeared. Maybe he doesn't like all the down thumbs.

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  • charli.m
    6 years ago

    What I want to know is why I posted a story about this yesterday and it doesn't show up. And why he bans other users in favour of malicious trolls.

    Can someone ask him for me, please? For all his "oh I read all feedback blah blah" he doesn't fuckin respond to 95% of it...

    Surprised you didn't get told not to post this, but to post feedback cos he doesn't read posts (...) but he reads ALL feedback...

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    • Zorak
      6 years ago

      I like how he basically dodges each of your questions that you just asked...Typical. He is very unprofeesional when it comes to his userbase. Wow....

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      • charli.m
        6 years ago

        In the spirit of openness, he PMd me about having gone through and reviewed/removed some sock puppet accounts. Still seems to have left the main idiot to go about his bullshit...but I will give him the benefit of the doubt until proved otherwise.

        But yeah. He has dodged most of my questions for years. Which is why I have zero respect for him and voice that openly.

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    • TheManagement
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      6 years ago

      I was about to post an announcement about this when I saw this post and decided to comment instead. The best way to contact me about bugs or complaints is still to use the Feedback form instead of complaining in a post. That will get you the best results. Thanks

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      • charli.m
        6 years ago

        Yeah. Only you ignore them. So I'm really not buying that.

        You've had complaints in the past about how you just launch shit with no explanation. Why on earth didn't you have the time to explain when you launched it?

        Excuses aren't believable.

        Additionally, you haven't answered why my stories don't show to anyone but me, and why you ban people who stand up to trolls while protecting the trolls.

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        • TheManagement
          STAFF
          6 years ago

          I don't ignore them. You never send private feedback, but you choose to complain like this publicly. It's not productive. If you like this site and you want it to improve I'd appreciate it if you would work with me to help improve things. If you send polite inquiries via Feedback for PM, then you'll get polite and helpful responses. If you're simply rude and vague and don't provide additional information to help me debug specific issues, then there may not be very much that I can do.

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          • charli.m
            6 years ago

            That is a downright lie and you know it.

            If you answered my enquiries, maybe I wouldn't have grown jaded and irritated and lost patience with your shit.

            Have you thought that you're meant to be the expert on websites, and I'm not? So I can't really give you more info than I do. I do my part. I don't understand why you never follow through on yours, then act like you're the victim.

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            • McBean
              6 years ago

              Sadly, we are all victims of each other. Udi bears the pain for everyone. Life just isn't fair.

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            • [Old Memory]
              6 years ago

              If you're not the expert and he is then maybe recognize that and realize he, nor any website creator, have the tools to get rid of any and all trolls, and that maybe what you're asking for just isn't possible.

              And maybe you don't get a response telling you that because of your rude attitude.

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  • TheManagement
    STAFF
    6 years ago

    You can now block/unblock someone from their profile page.

    Doing so will cause comments from the person you are blocking to be hidden from you when viewing posts. The reverse is also true, comments by you will not be shown to the person that you have blocked.

    You will also not be able to direct message with someone that has blocked you.

    Posts are excluded from this, because posting is anonymous and hiding posts from blocked users could reveal who has written which posts.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      Ah okay. Thanks man.

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    • fakeaccount3
      6 years ago

      How is it gonna help when the people causing problems have literally 100s of alternate accounts and keep making new ones to harass users?

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      • TheManagement
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        6 years ago

        Every bit helps. I'm also working on other improvements behind the scenes to combat such behavior. Please keep reporting bad comments and posts. Thanks

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        • fakeaccount3
          6 years ago

          Also there is a glitch where we cannot edit our op comments (it just says delete/hide now on our own comments) and certain comments of our own on other posts cannot be removed with delete button

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          • charli.m
            6 years ago

            It's almost like basic testing isn't done...

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          • TheManagement
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            6 years ago

            Please send bug reports like this via the Feedback tool, thanks! I'll gladly look into them asap.

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        • charli.m
          6 years ago

          We do that. And you side with the trolls and ban the people trying to help.

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      • BlackCatsAreAwesome
        6 years ago

        You block again lol
        Making a new account has a higher cost than blocking one.

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      • charli.m
        6 years ago

        My block list has been autogenerated, apparently, and consists almost exclusively of users that have been banned.

        Brilliant and so useful...

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        • TheManagement
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          6 years ago

          Previously you were able to block people from sending direct messages. Those existing blocks have carried through to this new system.

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          • BlackCatsAreAwesome
            6 years ago

            I don't even have a block list. I never blocked anyone but where is the place where you can see it?

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            • dirtybirdy
              6 years ago

              That's a lovely color you have on today.

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            • TheManagement
              STAFF
              6 years ago

              After you've blocked one or more people (from their profile pages) you'll see it show up in the menu.

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  • TheManagement
    STAFF
    6 years ago

    I don't doubt that you don't like those people, but I have no evidence that they're the same person. Now you can block them and I encourage you to do so if you have issues with their contributions.

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    • charli.m
      6 years ago

      If you paid even the slightest amount of attention, you would see it.

      But you have always sided with trolls. So maybe you do see it, and it is honesty and integrity that you're lacking.

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      • [Old Memory]
        6 years ago

        I think the point is that innocent users could be caught up in the name and shame of the idea these users are all one person.

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        • McBean
          6 years ago

          There are lots of contraindications that say they are different people as well. One thing for sure is that good trolls play mind games in a more subtle way than bad trolls. Boogers wants us to believe that there is a consortium, but never proves it exists. It's the same thing that asshole televangelists do about God.

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          • [Old Memory]
            6 years ago

            Aren't you one of zee accused? Either way, I don't know if that's true or not. If you are, even if you use an alt account (or if the person sees this) could you/they PM me? I'm quite curious as to why there is a large amount of trolling because quite a while back I knew it was going to happen for a specific reason, and I want to know if my assumption was correct. Obvs I'd not share what's said in PMs to the actual forum.

            That said. Personally I don't know of the validity of the accusations, if it's one person, numerous, or if it's trolling at all and not just witty statements that offend specific people, so o can't really speak much on the topic of this specific trolling case. Lol.

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Is it normal that I have no intention of blocking a bunch of people. I have blocked two people before, because they were loser pervs. I will only block loser pervs!

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  • dirtybirdy
    6 years ago

    Oh. My. Goodness.

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  • [Old Memory]
    6 years ago

    Some if you guys are just annoying.

    The guy/Udi has implimented a blocking feature to help with trolls and has briefly stated he has other attempts to help the site and all you guys are doing is being pratts to him.

    You're all complaining you want shit done and then the second he's back and trying new shit all you do is bitch at him and tell him it's not enough, Why in the hell would he want to go the extra mile for people getting free shit to post shit if the people hes doing it for are being pratts?

    You all also seem to think that just because you're the creator of a website that you can have 100% control over it. This just isn't the case. There's way to bypass the creator's attempts to fix issues, ways in which the creator is powerless to prevent.

    So give him some time, guys. He's trying. He isn't able to just click his finger and solve all these issues, and some of them can't be 100% fixed.

    Let the guy try before ya make him lose the motivation to help YOUR experience on a FREE website.

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    • itsamistake
      6 years ago

      Says the man who has never been targeted by the trolls (or the one particular troll that has been mentioned by several people).

      I am sure that if YOU had been targeted, you would be singing a different tune.

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      • [Old Memory]
        6 years ago

        I've had a few in my years on here, actually, some involving making alt-accounts aswell.

        Do you want to know how they eventually left me? They got bored. I didn't let some false sense of pride give them what they wanted, which was for me to interact with them.

        Trolls have been around for so long, and people know full well that not acknowledging them is a good way to get them to leave but they also want to have the last word, and some people, for some god forsaken reason, don't seem to realize that trolls are specifically aiming to trigger that, "I want the last word, I want the last word" mentality. Management probably knows this already, hence why he's trying to get people to just block and ignore eachother and do SOMETHING to make users help themselves.

        Then they look to everyone else to deal with the problem when they don't do anything to help themselves because for a lot of people, even when they know a person is a troll, the whole pride vs getting rid of the troll issue happens and more often than not, they chose irrational pride rather than doing what the trolls hate.

        Ignore them or let them win. They're the ONLY options you have. If any of you think that U DI has any capability to get rid of any troll 100%, then youre being irrational. The ONLY fullproof way to get rid of a troll is by giving up the, "I need the last word" mentality.

        For example, tell me. What happens if the troll is just ignored? Genuine question. What happens?

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        • itsamistake
          6 years ago

          In this particular case with this particular troll, what happens is that he then goes around on one of his many accounts and attacks you nonetheless. Ignoring this fuckit DOES NOT WORK. I have only been attacked for the 5 months I have been here but others like Zorak and charlim have been here around 5 years and yet this idiot still persists.

          That is why we are all getting up with Udi about it because he lets it go on and like people have pointed out a lot of good users have left because of it.

          Management has to do something about it an address the issue otherwise they will only have a site where the trolls (especially this one) will be the only ones left.

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          • TheManagement
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            6 years ago

            I believe that I've recently taken measures that will help. Have you noticed any such attacks in the last couple of days? If not, great. If so, please contact me with a PM or via Feedback with info and I'll look into it. Thanks.

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            • [Old Memory]
              6 years ago

              What constitutes as an attack? Is it threats of violence and/or crime?

              Genuine question.

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          • [Old Memory]
            6 years ago

            How does it not work? Ignore it entirely. If you see it's an account you know is a troll, don't even read it. If it's not one you recognize then read it up until you know it's a troll. Don't reply to them, don't even speak of them.

            Use PMs to name who is a troll between yourselves and that way you just check the usernames before reading.

            Personally, I know what Charli.m is like. I'm pretty sure she has not ignored them, atleast not for a long enough period, and replied to the trolls. Zorak I have no idea about but from a quick glance he hasn't ignored the troll either.

            So I'm not fully in belief they have ignored these trolls as much as they let on. Maybe I'm wrong, but-if I asked for the last five responses the troll has given them, outside of this post, I'm fairly certain they've responded to the trolls.

            A large part of this issue is that people are feeding the troll. Why on earth would any of you respond to the troll at all when you know it's what they want? Help yourselves for Christ sake.

            I'm sure udi is trying to sort thos issue but there is no guarantee he will be able to get anywhere near a solution you guys expect.

            Worst of all, it's very possible that due to this issue, in attempts to stop the trolls, measures are put in place that effect all users, that restrains them from certain topics, meanwhile the troll just adapts to it and is unaffected while everyone else suffers from the measures put in to stop the trolls, and yet again the troll wins, if not gets an even bigger win, all because certain folk just couldn't ignore the troll and couldn't stop that, "I need to give 'em a piece of my mind" mentality.

            And as a matter of fact, I think I've been on here longer than Charli but looking into the supposed troll, it's very possible they are one of the ones that attempted to troll me but gave up as there's some similarities in their ways of operating.

            Gonna have to repeat this. Ther is very little to nothing udi can do to solve this issue, even if he's trying his hardest to help the users. Every website has this issue.

            Ignore. Don't read. Move on.

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            • fakeaccount4
              6 years ago

              As someone who isn't personally bothered/harassed by this particular troll, and have even been considered a "troll" myself, he's still just cringey as fuck and doesn't contribute anything of value to this site (at least some trolls are funny).

              I wouldn't even consider this guy a troll, hes just a bitter old manbaby with nothing else in his life. The guy has over 25 accounts (and doesn't have the balls to admit it) he uses to write stories/polls in which he responds to them himself as if he is a different person, and upvotes his own stupid replies. As long as management allows this people will continue to do it until everything here is just boring dumbass/fail trolls (it's already getting to that point).

              He makes new accounts literally every day so ignore does basically nothing. These posts will never be ignored because too many other users fall for the "popularity" bullshit. look up the definition of "samefagging" and that's what he's doing. Even if you add to ignore you will still see the stupid posts constantly as long as Udi allows it

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            • TheManagement
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              6 years ago

              I'm hoping that people will use the new block feature for exactly this. If the trolls get blocked and ignored, they'll get bored, and they'll eventually stop.

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    • McBean
      6 years ago

      Exactly. This twisted thinking that an entire list of certain accounts is from one user is bullshit. Boogers is just playing with everybody's mind by saying he has a consortium. Udi is absolutely correct; there is no evidence that any of these accounts (including mine) are from the same person.

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  • Tealights
    6 years ago

    No idea. Never felt the need to block anyone on here, as odd as that sounds lol.

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    • McBean
      6 years ago

      You should try it. I am experimenting with blocking emo users. It's fun to respond to discussions with only partial knowledge of that discussion. Sort of like covering your ears and screaming, "Fuck emos. Fuck emos." Hahaha.

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  • [Old Memory]
    6 years ago

    Bleh. Block option. I see this maybe being beneficial against trolls but not so great for the posible future after the trolls are lessened. It could make mini sections of echo chambers.

    Hey ho, I don't know the future though. See how it turns out by giving it a chance.

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