Scans_Daily

IMO, the ban function only really works to prevent user from commenting on one's post, and has significantly reduced utility when it comes to the comments section, because you don't need to reply directly to someone's comment to make it visible to them. Someone can comment "This is great, I love this!" on a post, and even though they have blocked me, I can still totally comment right beneath, "Wow, this sucks because of x, y, and z, can't believe people like this," etc.

Of course, this is very (very) passive-aggressive, but it is difficult to imagine a functioning moderation policy that forbids people from posting an opinion just because someone who has blocked you has already posted their opinion first. Or vice-versa, if you're not supposed to respond to people you've blocked. To add to this, there are comment chains which have multiple people corresponding in them - how does this work, if you want to participate in the conversation, are you at some point in the chain allowed to respond to someone who has responded to a person who blocked you / you have blocked?

Adding to this, I simply do not know everyone who has blocked me, and I'm not sure if there's any functionality to find that out. I learned just recently that dw still lets you write out a reply to people who have you blocked, it just tells you that you're blocked when you try to post it. So I don't know how to learn if someone has blocked me short of writing out a reply to them and seeing if it goes through, and I don't want to try replying to people who I suspect have animus with me just to check.