Discussion on the <Blacklist> function

[Solarra]

OP - Your concern for the feelings/rights of people being blacklisted, seems misplaced to me.
We pay for this game and if we run into someone we would rather not deal with again, then blacklisting is the sensible thing to do. I don't feel any explanations are owed in that situation.
As to forcing a report for a full block, I don't see the point; often people don't want to go this far. At the moment we can control who we block and we can unblock a person at any time. I wouldn't like to see that taken away from players and put exclusively in the hands of the GMs (who surely have enough to do anyway?).

Maybe try and take a look at this issue from the point of view of the person doing the blocking. It's not a 'rage' thing in most cases, just a simple way to prevent someone bothering/harassing you while you play the game.

As to allowing someone to see they have been blacklisted, I feel that suggestion is particularly dangerous. You are giving people too much credit if you see that primarily as a path to reconciliation. While it is just possible someone might apologise for their behaviour, experience tells me that people do not readily admit when they are wrong. I also think it's likely some people would use the knowledge they have been blacklisted to ramp up the abuse (via friends, alts etc).

With all of that said, the present system could do with some improvements. Vidu's post makes some excellent suggestions here:

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