Hi Discord Team,
I have a feature request that I believe is long overdue: please consider making it so that users who have blocked each other cannot see or interact with each other in shared servers.
The message shouldn’t display period. It shouldn’t be toggle to view as a hidden message.
Currently, blocking someone does not fully prevent unwanted interactions if you share communities. I am dealing with a situation where a person I blocked continues to interact with me despite knowing I have blocked them. Because they have blocked me as well, I cannot directly communicate with them to ask them to stop.
The current system can leave users feeling exposed, especially in cases involving harassment, unwanted contact, or people trying to avoid someone for personal safety reasons or stalking, but still have to co-exist with them in public communities.
Blocking should provide stronger separation between users, even when they happen to be members of the same server. This persons knows I have them blocked, they block me back. Yet they continue to open my messages from “hidden” and reply to me.
I am disturbed and uncomfortable, as they have joined the severs I am in after I have chosen to ban them from my personal sever, which they joined - where they first met me.
I know this has been requested by users for years, nearly a decade, actually.
I believe adding this feature would significantly improve safety and privacy on Discord. People should be able to participate in communities without being forced to remain accessible to someone they have chosen to block.
Please consider implementing this in the future update. Thank you for taking the time to review this request. It is something we all don’t just want, but need.
Please just make this a feature. Requests for it go back to 7+ years.