[tuhriel]

I see what you are suggesting here, I see the same trend but I think the reason why is not the one you are implying.

The HN community, in most topics, is against censoring, echo chambers and that free speech doesn't mean you can say anything without being called out.

IMHO there are two impacted groups here: a) the ones who block everything and everyone that doesn't agree with them (on a public platform) b) the ones who are harassed and stalked and need to use the block as a defense

the change is bad for people in group b) - which most people can agree on. The problem with blocking is, it doesn't solve the problem (it's the equivalent of the EU's great idea of DNS blocking). There should be a system in place that actual (online) harassment can be legally pursued and prevented.

against group a), I think the change is a net-positive

[slg]

> The problem with blocking is, it doesn't solve the problem

You’re right it doesn’t solve the problem, but the people who experience this problem say it helps and now those people are losing that help.