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caio · 4668 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski and Reddit: What happens when Reddit becomes Digg?
A great question. Perhaps a solution is to color the name of the blocked user in the comments the same way his name would get coloured in your feed if you blocked him. That way you'd know to skip that comment, if you're so inclined, or respond to it.
I think this situation is alike to that of a bully in school. How do you stop someone like that? You can (a) confront the person, but I think that would, most likely, escalate into a flame war and all the horizon of civility and politeness would be crossed much faster than any of us would like to; or (b) you can ignore the person. However, that strategy also has its problems. It might stop the bully, but it also might give him confidence to pursue his abusive behavior without consequence.