We've talked about this on and off for ages, but this issue will capture a couple of notes. I've been more interested in implementing mute/ignore (hiding all notifications) rather than block (prevent read access), but I'm not sure if others agree.
mute / ignore would hide notifications of sends and snoops from people on your ignore list
... which should make it relatively easy to implement, as it's just modifications to the logged-in user's view, rather than something to be checked/recording when reading/writing plans
mute could also hide the plans of muted people (like if you clicked on a snoop, it could just tell you that you're currently muting this person rather than showing you their plan) -- would people like that?
mute/ignore would probably not be visible to the person being ignored, which I suspect has some advantages in our not-actively-moderated system as we know that harassers can become extra antagonistic when they can determine that they're being blocked
mute/ignore doesn't try to provide access control guarantees (like 'block' would be expected to do), which in the past people on planworld have worked around
We've talked about this on and off for ages, but this issue will capture a couple of notes. I've been more interested in implementing mute/ignore (hiding all notifications) rather than block (prevent read access), but I'm not sure if others agree.