"Enhanced Blacklist Functionality" Safety Concerns

[Valence]

Personally I don't believe much in turning anybody or anything invisible or playing ostrich. It's too full of exploits in both ways to really work.

An easy first step would be to make friendlist removal reciprocal. The lodestone stalk changes are also a good step in that direction, as well as the account wide block application. The mutelist/blacklist could also benefit from removing the possibility to search for the victim ingame (notably for their location).

This is not gonna fix everything though, especially regarding spotters and other elaborate methods used by stalkers, but it certainly makes it a lot harder, especially when one can also detect the spotters easily in non crowded areas and also block them (account wide).


Edit: to be clear I do understand that muting is already a form of making something invisible, which is text and speech. You choose by muting someone not to be able to read anything anymore, and they could be spouting really bad stuff about you already. The obvious culprit here is the total uselessness and training on the side of GMs in this game.