The Curious Propensity to Block

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So, I was just blocked by someone. Their stated reason? “I agree with your position now that I understand it, but since you argued with me when I initially misunderstood it, I dislike you.” Paraphrased, of course, but that was the gist of it.

Blocking is too easy. It shouldn't be a simple click of the button to use for any petty reason. You do not own the space on a website, even your profile page. It is a public area, and booting someone out of a public area should not be taken so lightly.

Edit: I just realized something. Apparently, when the guy in question blocked me, he was removed from my watch list, as well as all of his deviations from my favorites gallery. Is that supposed to happen? Because if it is, that's just assholery. He's a good artist, but for some reason I'm not allowed to enjoy his art without his permission? What the actual bloody fuck?

Edit 2: I looked into it, and this is actually an intended feature. I can't believe it. I just… nobody else should have the ability to edit my list of favorites and watches. If someone doesn't want me to post comments on their stuff, fine. But this is just utter bullshit.
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I just blocked someone last week, and apparently the first time ever since I joined dA 10+ years ago.

Why? Well, there was this other artist getting harrassed by various people, so I basically posted a giant "STOP BULLYING HIM" sign on his userpage.

Of course, next thing I know, one of the bullies comes over and starts spamming me.

Like, every 2 hours or so, just posting the same short inflamatory messages.

I didn't bother getting into an argument, because honestly, I had other stressful real life problems to attend to at the time that were more important than arguing with a troll.

Hide, hide, hide, mark as spam, block user.

Done.

I figured I'd just unblock him a few days later when I had more time to deal with that nonsense and he'd probably cooled down enough not to start spamming again.

I didn't know that could remove stuff from people's favourites, what the actual F:iconfluttershyyayplz:, deviantArt?!

That's not a feature, that's a bug! Get to fixing it, now! :iconangryfaicplz: