Please hide blacklisted player's character

[Vandril]

If you cant see the difference between historical moments, and people being outraged that Target has a boys toy section and a girls toy section, then you are a bit blind.

I could say the same about the similarities. Humanity has never had a very good sense of scale. And scale, in this case meaning severity or level of importance, is the only difference between these historical moments and modern petty outrages.

What's changed in the past few decades isn't the people. People were always self-righteous. There were always people who would get upset if a coin happened to land on tails, or something equally frivolous. The majority always wanted things to bend their way. None of this is new or different from previous generations since as far back as recorded history goes.

What has changed is technology. Information technology. Medical technology. Hell, even agricultural technology. More people hear about every small thing that happens across the world almost instantaneously thanks to television, the internet, phones, etc. After all, the information age of technology is now. Medical and Agricultural technology means we're living healthier, safer, and longer lives, with plentiful food for many. We worry less about our next meal and die less to lethal diseases/infections now than ever before. This frees up all that time, which we'd otherwise spend planning and preparing to survive, to do other things.

Mix an abundance of free time with virtually instantaneous information transfer and constant information flow to and from around the world, then throw in some human nature (which hasn't adapted to recent technologies, yet), and you get a recipe for petty squabbles.

"Millennials" are not the problem. In an ironic twist of fate, the very argument that "millennials" are the problem is actually a frivolous, petty squabble resulting from the above.

(I had more to say, and could have fleshed it all out more thoroughly, but I decided I didn't want to write a book about something largely off topic.)
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On topic. Would it be nice for blacklisted players to be removed from your gameplay entirely? Sure. You blacklisted them because you didn't want to deal with them. Of course it would. But it's not realistic.

It could be done. It could even be done well. It's possible.

But the programming implications... Nope. It's just not going to happen.

I'm going to assume you have never been bullied before. And I'm 34 so I'm not gonna fall into your "millennials" crowd. Unfortunately I was bullied pretty heavily as a kid. So when I get exposed to that kind of treatment, and it actually sticks. It's really a problem.

I, for one, was bullied a hell of a lot as a kid. I was the really big, pacifistic guy; which made me the best bullying target because I seemed big and strong but wouldn't retaliate. I was the guy bullied, physically and otherwise, in every year of my primary education, in and out of school.

I can still easily ignore people on the internet. It doesn't get to me.

Being bullied does stick to you, but you can control how it influences you.

[Risvertasashi]

On topic. Would it be nice for blacklisted players to be removed from your gameplay entirely? Sure. You blacklisted them because you didn't want to deal with them. Of course it would. But it's not realistic.

It could be done. It could even be done well. It's possible.

But the programming implications... Nope. It's just not going to happen.

Well, here's the thing. Blacklist does block party invites, party finder, trade windows, and so on. IMO it's done pretty well. Someone goes on that list, they are, effectively, removed from your gameplay.

But MMOs are also a social, shared world. If merely seeing a person you (hypothetical 'you') don't like is too much to handle... then once more, I don't think this is the right genre for such a person.