"Warn"/"Label" feature on blocklists

[RossBrunton]

Describe the Feature

For moderation lists, you have three options:

• Label - Displays a small label under an affected post that indicates its presence under a moderation list.
• Warn - Shows a clickthrough in order to see content affected by that list.
• Hide - Affected posts are not visible at all.

This is a nice compromise; I use the "warn" option so I can check that the moderation list actually does what it says.

It would be nice if blocklists had the same features. Specifically, instead of a blanket "block all", you would have the following options:

• Label - Accounts on the blockist have a small flair next to all of their posts, but are otherwise fully visible.
• Warn - Accounts on the blocklist have all their posts hidden by default with a "This user is on Moderation List XYZ" which can be seen with a clickthrough.
• Hide - Accounts on the blocklist are automatically hidden from your timeline and search.
• Block - Accounts on the blocklist are automatically blocked (which blocks them from interacting with you and all the other features that blocks do).

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Additional Context

This is an important safety feature, since bad actors have declared an intent to use the binary nature of blocklists to harass individuals. If people had the ability to "warn" on blocklists, they would notice that the blocklist blocks people that they did not expect to be blocked.

See also: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/6464

[GCarty80]

I have an alternative idea re blocklists: if a person which a user is following is added to a blocklist the user is subscribed to then they will receive a Notification about that user, so they can check in case the blocklist has been compromised by a bad actor.

[aritsune]

+1 on the original suggestion. i don't really trust other people to do my blocking/muting for me even if they're not an obvious bad actor, so I'd really prefer to use those lists as labelers instead just so I can get a warning about who I'm interacting with.

[rst]

Another +1. Subscribing to a blocklist right now requires a very high level of trust of the maintainer, and the good ones acknowledge that they can't prevent false positives.