[jilly]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I take it your site has a lot of young people?

Yep! (lol). Some of them have a lot of time on their hands and want to worry about blocking this person or that person from reading their posts. And yes, users can just create another username and then they'd have to block that - but if we noticed a person doing that over and over, (keep making new usernames to get around the block) then that would be validation to the staff that there might be a valid harassment or stalking issue, whereas at the point, the staff would step in and warn or ban the user who keeps following the other user around.

This would allow the people who are either mad at each other, or who suspect it's someone stalking them, to feel in control and block the people themselves first, and so it's less work for the staff. The minor tiffs can be handled by the users, and the true issues can be identified easier by staff with this add-on.

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Originally Posted by Boofo

Interesting idea, although I don't know how you would keep up on updating the users and turning it off and on.

I would hope you could use the buddy list area in the user cp, so the user can just go in and block or unblock the person just like you make a buddy or put someone on your ignore list now.