My idea is to change how blocking works to reduce the amount of block abuse occurs during exchanges.
I completely understand the need for blocking people on Reddit. Harassment occurs. Bullying occurs. BUT, there is a pattern of abuse of the block feature on Reddit that needs to be addressed.
Too often, two people will be engaged in a back and forth, one person will get mad and comment something and then immediately block the person they replied to. This prevents that person from being able to read the reply, but the reply still shows up for the rest of Reddit.
My idea is that there should be a timer every time you reply to someone on Reddit where you cannot block that person unless one of two things occurs: either the person responds back to you, or it has been longer than 24 hours since you sent your reply, whichever occurs first. This allows the person you are having a discussion with a fair amount of time to read your reply. If you are being harassed by someone, you don’t need to respond back in the first place. There is literally no situation where you urgently need to block someone but first you need to reply to them so that everyone else other than that person can see your reply.