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Posted by: spartain ken 15
By hiding the problem and not doing anything about it, they are still going to act like jerks. This hide feature is just ignoring the problem.
Atleast when people get banned for something, they have to think about their actions. BY just saying lets block them, we are saying it is okay to act like a jerk/be annoying and they won't be punished for it.
You're talking as if we have complete control over blacklisting people, we don't; we're only limited to reporting which is already underused for several reasons. Moderators make the call to ban a user, so unless they'd use said feature (which they wouldn't), then there'd be no difference in the amount of people having to think about there actions (which would rarely happen because A: There's no positiveincentive to follow the rules, and B: The ease of circumventing a ban).
Until such a time where people can learn to ignore by using the power of their mind blah, blah, blah (which will never happen), it's better than standing around twiddling our thumbs assuming we can all change to this utopic view of not taking an annoying poster/spammer to heart.
[Edited on 07.29.2012 10:17 PM PDT]