Decentralization exists for free speech, free exchange and free expression in all forms - this should be looked upon as sacrosanct! Gagging people, or making perspectives that we do not agree with, invisible to us, is for the corporate, centralized Social Media .. not STEEMIT.
There are incentives in-place, and mechanisms where bad behaviour is met with immediate negative sanction, not exiling and shunning, but rather guide posts by which they can find their way back into society, and although they may still disagree, they are forced to find increasingly improved and effective ways to be heard, an opportunity to learn and grow and to redeem oneself.
In short: Filtering is elitist bullshit - people who would walk down a city street, and instead of enjoying the beautiful mess that the noisy, smelly, often outspoken and sometimes unpredictable, people they share the city with, would make them disappear if they could.
BOOM!
This is not a proposal to hide content from others, but block it from individual eyes. I should be able to block user_x in a way that allows everyone to see that they have said, but it is filtered from my view
isn't that what mute does?
If you mute someone, you can't see that person. But I think they can still see you, your posts, your interactions, wallet etc. I've seen a few pretty creepy stalker types saying very abusive things to women here. The proposal for a filter or block feature is to provide women in that situation with a degree of safety.
I get it but I still don't understand how can they hurt anyone if you can't hear them?
Also the community is amazing, they'll get downvoted into oblivion!
I was reading in GitHub it seems to more shade it out. Like being flagged.... So almost highlighting it (because I NEED to know what was blocked)
@razvanelulmarin I could not nest my reply further so I'll post here. I think the problem is that the stalker can still follow the other person and read everything they post. The woman being stalked might relax because she's not seeing all the abuse in comments. So she might share that she and friends are going to Chicago to go to a restaurant. It's a long shot but the stalker might try to find her. Or maybe she's a writer and publishes stories under her real name because of copyright concerns. By relaxing, she puts herself at risk. And again the stalker can see everything related to her here, even if muted. I think the larger question is: Why does the steemit community not kick out both men and women who do nothing but abuse others here? What do they contribute and why are they tolerated?