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orderfour

Block Abuse. Redditor unblocking me to comment, then reblocking. I can't stop them from messaging me. Help?

There is a person that has me blocked, then they unblock me to reply, and block again. They are a rude and nasty person so I'd love to block them so I don't have to read their stuff anymore. But since I am blocked by them, I can't block them back. I've tried going to their user page to block them, and I've tried reporting them to block them too. Reddit won't give me the option when they have me blocked. Which basically means this guy can harass me whenever he feels like it and I can't do a thing about it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Posted Mar 18, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

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OPIsACompleteSham•

Go to Settings, safety and privacy, and you can manually enter names from there.

Based on your comment history, looks pretty obvious who it is. It seems like you are both in the wrong, with you instigating them, and taking their comments out of context... They definitely have an attitude, even if they made legitimate points, the way they went about it was in poor form.

LMK if you can't figure it out.

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orderfourOP•

Yea I can be in the wrong, and I'm sure I am sometimes. I'm a sadist that loves arguing on the internet when I think people are wrong. A lot of times I learn from it though, even if I still think I'm right.

Your suggestion worked, thank you!

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Sylvane1a•

I'm a sadist that loves arguing on the internet when I think people are wrong.

You're like me. I can't help stating my opinion even when I know that it will be downvoted. Ever notice positive, sentimental posts get upvotes and hard truths get downvoted?

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Substantial-Snow-930•

Me but I get sad when I see the downvotes and delete. It triggers my OCD too and... Ocd things happen. It's stressful

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Sylvane1a•

You delete your own post because others rejected it? That's what they want. Sometimes I do that and then re-post it somewhere else. There's probably a rule against that.

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00crispybacon00•

I'm a sadist

Well you deserve this then lol.

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SanctimoniousApe•

That's bizarre - why not allow blocking just because they blocked you, Reddit?

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MinimumArmadillo2394•

They also disabled you from seeing your own comments if it was in a comment tree they also commented in on your own profile. They finally fixed that.

New blocking is absolutely garbage.

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outerworldLV•

Absolutely agree.

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ozoneghost141•

New blocking system is trash

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Thor1138•

If it stays like that, this might actually what makes me stop using reddit at some point. It's getting more and more ridiculous, with someone starting an argument with you, then blocking you either after you reply or even before you get the chance to reply, so they can have the last word (happened to me a few times now just this week). It only encourages childish behaviour like that or worse actually fosters misinformation. Whoever designed that system is either an idiot or malicious.

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WazzleOz•

9/10 I can't make a comment on r/Canada because I'm blocked by most of the bots that spam news articles.

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Substantial-Snow-930•

There's a new one? Is there a post about it?

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ozoneghost141•

Yes, don't know, saw a few articles about it recently, the main thing is that if someone blocks you, you can't see anything about them (it wasn't like this before).

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Substantial-Snow-930•

But you can see stuff about them and not block them back? Bs. I heard it was bad before but now it sucks.

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Substantial-Snow-930•

Rip

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bunkojones•

I would old school block by ignoring, scroll on bro. You are getting played.

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WazzleOz•

Remember when people didn't treat the internet like their living room?

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08206283•

block system isnt even working rn. anyone else got comments from blocked users suddenly showing up uncollapsed as if they werent blocked at all?

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Sylvane1a•

If you're blocked by someoone, shouldn't the system tell you that you are blocked? I suspect I am blocked by a certain someone because I can't reply to them or block them, but the error message is not specific, it just says "something went wrong".

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orderfourOP•

Yea, it says something went wrong. The issue is he is unblocking me and messaging me or replying to me, then blocking me again. Thankfully a kind redditor above gave me instructions for how to block him.

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Substantial-Snow-930•

I did that. I had ocd tho so I treating. The person was not online at the time tho. I'd block him to move on. But then feel that something was wrong and unblock to edit the message or add more to make sure I was clear enough.

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Sylvane1a•

Yeah, I get what he is doing. Playing provocative games. Sorry, I was just interjecting my own issue.

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Thor1138•

it just says "something went wrong".

Yes, that's the message you get when someone blocked you, it's reddit gaslighting you. https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/skbca5/why_do_i_get_something_is_broken_please_try_again/

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lightningdickthor•

They fixed it to turn posts from people you've blocked or who have blocked you to show [unavailable] now

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Sylvane1a•

It's not expressed very well, is it? It could mean a lot of things.

Thanks.

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Substantial-Snow-930•

So if you block someone and message they can still see it but can't reply? The system is broken! Maybe they have OCD or something. Either way they must stop themselves.

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orderfourOP•

Seems like you were the one with the attitude problem when it was all said and done...

Just following your lead u/OPIsACompleteSham

Can't believe you also succumbed to the 'block and comment' tactic. Sad. I thought you were better than that. Guess not. Probably why you know how to circumvent it. Must come up a lot for you. Also you dig into post histories and hide your own. Must have been some ugly stuff in there.

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DoTheDew:bulb: helper•

You can only block, unblock, and block someone a very small number of times before you have to wait to do it again.

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Deter_Pinklage•

Wtf, close the website, dont look at the messages??

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