I reckon PM blocking is fair enough, but causing some people’s comments and answers to be invisible to some others will cause too much ambiguity and confusion.
Also, will we know if someone has “blocked” us?
How will people know whether to answer a question or make a comment, if some people might simply be unable to see it?
What is the point of having people on the site, who will permanently close their eyes to answers from people they do not like, before even seeing them?
Abuse cannot be tolerated and will obviously be modded, so the block feature will be applied to messages that people simply “don’t like”. Why should we accommodate people, who can’t deal with reading things that they simply “don’t like”?
I’m not saying people should have to read abuse, but it seems rather anti-intellectual to allow people to blinker themselves from ideas they “don’t like” without even reading them first.
I mean, it’s the electronic equivalent of holding your hands over your ears and saying “LALALALALALALALALALALA – I CANT HEAR YOU! – LALALALALALA”
every time someone you dislike in your conversation group says anything.
I remember people doing this in primary school, and I thought it was lame as hell then, and I still think it is lame as hell right now.