Is it possible to block a person from seeing your posts? One of my players has flagged my posts to see them, but this makes it far more difficult to ask questions about monsters and other DM tricks to surprise them. (He told me that he was following my posts after I mentioned something I had found out about on here.)
No, it is not possible to prevent another user from seeing your posts. You can only prevent their posts from being visible to you using the Ignore feature. Two options available to you might be:
Ask your player not to follow your posts as you'd like to be able to ask questions without spoiling anything for them (which given that they're following your posts and would likely be notified of this post, they're already aware of)
Make an alt account for the purpose of asking questions covertly, away from the prying eyes of your players
I've seen threads where the comments go from #2, #3, #4, then #6, #8, #10. Opened the thread in incognito mode where I was not logged in and saw someone had posted in #5, #7, and #9. These were not deleted comments. I thought to myself "someone blocked me? what did I do?", but just moved on and didn't give it much thought. I only remember coming across this once or twice in all the years I've been coming here.
A forum like this isn't the same as something like Facebook or Twitter where you have your own page and can post there. In those places, being able to block others from your page makes sense.
Here, it's more like being in a public space and talking. Ignoring is the way to avoid seeing anything they say, as an anti-harassment measure in addition to simply being able to not deal with them.
Im going to assume you've never been the target of serious online harrassment.
I'll be honest with you, this forum is heavily moderated. If such harassment is happening, the mods will slap the offenders pretty fast. The ability to ignore people you don't want to hear from should be enough in such an environment.
Would it maybe be an issue in a more free-for-all space? Possibly. But it shouldn't be an issue here.
Im going to assume you've never been the target of serious online harrassment.
Yeup.
I've brought this up in the past. This style of false blocking empowers abusers. There's a reason a lot of people prefer BlueSky's nuclear blocking option and hate Discord's, as a for instance.
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Is it possible to block a person from seeing your posts? One of my players has flagged my posts to see them, but this makes it far more difficult to ask questions about monsters and other DM tricks to surprise them. (He told me that he was following my posts after I mentioned something I had found out about on here.)
Thanks in advance,
Evan
No, it is not possible to prevent another user from seeing your posts. You can only prevent their posts from being visible to you using the Ignore feature. Two options available to you might be:
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I've seen threads where the comments go from #2, #3, #4, then #6, #8, #10. Opened the thread in incognito mode where I was not logged in and saw someone had posted in #5, #7, and #9. These were not deleted comments. I thought to myself "someone blocked me? what did I do?", but just moved on and didn't give it much thought. I only remember coming across this once or twice in all the years I've been coming here.
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On online forum with no block-user feature?
Is it 1999 or something?
And no, "ignore" is no where near the same.
A forum like this isn't the same as something like Facebook or Twitter where you have your own page and can post there. In those places, being able to block others from your page makes sense.
Here, it's more like being in a public space and talking. Ignoring is the way to avoid seeing anything they say, as an anti-harassment measure in addition to simply being able to not deal with them.
Im going to assume you've never been the target of serious online harrassment.
I'll be honest with you, this forum is heavily moderated. If such harassment is happening, the mods will slap the offenders pretty fast. The ability to ignore people you don't want to hear from should be enough in such an environment.
Would it maybe be an issue in a more free-for-all space? Possibly. But it shouldn't be an issue here.
Yeup.
I've brought this up in the past. This style of false blocking empowers abusers. There's a reason a lot of people prefer BlueSky's nuclear blocking option and hate Discord's, as a for instance.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.