Blacklisting is flawed and that’s that.

[purgatori]

Blacklisted people no longer being blacklisted be like:



...but in all seriousness, you can't simply stop being blacklisted in a trivial, easy-to-toggle fashion.

I mean, you can go out of your way to make alts or attempt to invalidate the blacklist handle. (There have been reports in the past of people paying to world hop to another DC and then hop back and having their blacklist status reset.)
However, at that point, it's the same thing as paying your ISP for a replace-on-demand IP and having tons of email addresses in order to bypass forum bans. You're giving yourself extra work, and they still won't listen to you.

That's not what the OP is talking about, though. They're talking about the ability of someone who has blacklisted you to toggle that blacklisting on/off, which creates a problem for... reasons?

[Yshtola]

That made no sense lmao

[JWag12787]

Ummm.... What?
Why can't both parties blacklist?

[DumdogsWorld]

That's not what the OP is talking about, though. They're talking about the ability of someone who has blacklisted you to toggle that blacklisting on/off, which creates a problem for... reasons?

Okay, you lost me. Blacklisting means to block all incoming messages and text from a specific individual. Even if the blacklisted offenders could get around such a block on their own end, I can't see the messages actually making it through to the recipient who initiated the blacklisting without some form of bannable circumvention.

Okay, after re-reading the OP's post several times, I finally understood what he/she meant. I would suggest fixing the wording for people out there who are as dense as myself.

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If, in a situation where somebody is blacklisted...

-The person doing the blacklisting is the blacklister

-The person being blacklisted is the blacklistee

...then the problem is that blacklistees can't blacklist their own blacklisters, correct? If that's the case, then the system isn't fundamentally flawed, but rather they just need to remove the prevention check.

[Barraind]

It seems to have something to do with someone unblacklisting you, sending a message and then blacklisting you so you cant respond.

But if you had blacklisted them, they couldnt say anything to you anyway regardless, so it...

still doesnt make sense.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Okay, you lost me. Blacklisting means to block all incoming messages and text from a specific individual. Even if the blacklisted offenders could get around such a block on their own end, I can't see the messages actually making it through to the recipient who initiated the blacklisting without some form of bannable circumvention.

Okay, after re-reading the OP's post several times, I finally understood what he/she meant. I would suggest fixing the wording for people out there who are as dense as myself.

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If, in a situation where somebody is blacklisted...

-The person doing the blacklisting is the blacklister

-The person being blacklisted is the blacklistee

...then the problem is that blacklistees can't blacklist their own blacklisters, correct? If that's the case, then the system isn't fundamentally flawed, but rather they just need to remove the prevention check.

Pretty sure there is nothing that keeps you from blacklisting a person who has you blacklisted.

[DumdogsWorld]

...

Yet that appears to be what the OP is talking about.

[HeyMcFly]

I was given an official warning after making jokes about my crush on Aymeric de Borel during an MSQ raid- evidently, someone took offense to it & went out of their way to report me. I've never received any warning before or anything... So, reporting people DOES work- but only if you joke about the NPC's, but people who harass you by blacklisting you & toggling it on & off with your parsing #'s are ignored.

[hynaku]

Blacklisting a player doesn't stop them from finding you. Once I had person that was harassing me. I blacklisted him and made sure wasn't in any linkshell's with him but he still found me after I did a race change and name change was some how able to still chat with me even after he was on my blacklist. I'm pretty sure if blacklist them it doesn't remove you from there friends list but only from yours. Finally had to have a GM take care of it. You still get blacklisted players in your party sometimes from duty finder. Blacklisting needs fixed.

[purgatori]

Yet that appears to be what the OP is talking about.

Nope. I think Barraind might have cracked it. I don't think they like the fact that the blacklister (to borrow DumdogsWorld's helpful terminology) can un-blacklist the blacklistee just long enough to taunt them, and then re-blacklist them before they have a chance to respond.

If that's the case, then my take is that if you're unwilling to blacklist someone harassing you because you want the opportunity to retaliate, then it's that's on you.