Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Blocking

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Not a good idea

May not be suitable for the wishlist and is a bad idea for many reasons. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:54, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Who died and made you king? Geezes. Every modern communication platform has a way to block individual people. Timwi (talk) 05:34, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't Twitter. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

There's Special:Mute/ (access through userpage) however blocks can be made by sysops only. Best, A09|(pogovor) 14:16, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

I have a better Idea: All Admin CheckUser and Oversight actions and shell access to the Server for all users (Including IPs):-)--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 16:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

The proposal here is (likely) not to allow non-admin users to remove edit rights from other users, but to be able to individually ignoring their posts in discussions. As noted above, this is possible in countless of platforms (and it doesn't end in anarchy either, just in more peace of mind). As also noted above, Wikimedia projects are a bit different than the ordinary social media platform, as discussions here usually aim to constructively improve articles, and if I don't see answers 4, 8 and 17, it's hard to follow the discussion and interpret its outcome.

A solution that just shows "A contribution by an ignored user (user XYZ) has been hidden. Click here to expand it / click here to expand all hidden contributions in this thread." could still be worth it. That would allow to easily fully follow an important discussion, while not being bothered with XYZ's posts in the daily business. --Karotte Zwo (talk) 08:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

A thing is that people's points should not be ignored in discussions. By the way sometimes posts are removed or put into collapsed templates but that happens very rarely. Rather than ignoring selected people, e.g. those that you don't like or facilitating/enabling people to do so I think what it needs in long discussions is a more structured approach where individual points and their respective replies are structured like they are on Kialo. You don't follow a discussion if e.g. critics points are ignored even if one user wrote 95% of a thread. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Agreed – this is a collaborative platform, not a social media platform. --SHB2000 (t • c) 22:31, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you

@Thornfield Hall thanks for submitting this wish. Is Special:Mute something that'd help you in this use case? JWheeler-WMF (talk) 03:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Service, as Special:Mute is just a blank page with no documentation whatsoever: That's the functionality described at mw:Help:Notifications#mute and also included in the preferences, "Notifications" section, as "Muted users - Do not display notifications from these users." --Karotte Zwo (talk) 13:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Already existing alternative

@Thornfield Hall: I think if a user is annoying you to the point where you feel you must block them, you should probably try to discuss it first on their talk page in a civilized manner, and if they don't cooperate and continue to harass you, you should report them to the admins on w:WP:AN or similar. Also, as A09 mentioned, Special:Mute exists. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 07:59, 24 August 2024 (UTC)