Blocked for no reason

[quote=travelers122227]Blocking takes two keystrokes. One on the profile to hit "block", then another to confirm "YES or NO I want to block this person". I don't see how it could be done by accident. They may have had a valid reason or maybe a stupid reason. Maybe a simple misunderstanding, but they had a reason even if it was stupid. No worries, move on to more compatible people.

We've blocked people that were annoying, not compatible, won't take no for an answer, and at least one who was a sick MoFo that should be in prison or a mental institution.

People have blocked us, generally for no reason we are aware of other than non-interest for age/looks, or non-compatibility in interests, but that is OK too. Everyone is not for everyone.[/quote]I do beleive it could be another SLS glitch. There are just too many people we have never ever heard of that we find blocks. Our friends have said the same thing.

We have blocked people when we discover they live in very close proximity to our home (same neighborhood). Just sayin'!

Blocking takes two keystrokes. One on the profile to hit "block", then another to confirm "YES or NO I want to block this person". I don't see how it could be done by accident. They may have had a valid reason or maybe a stupid reason. Maybe a simple misunderstanding, but they had a reason even if it was stupid. No worries, move on to more compatible people.

We've blocked people that were annoying, not compatible, won't take no for an answer, and at least one who was a sick MoFo that should be in prison or a mental institution.

People have blocked us, generally for no reason we are aware of other than non-interest for age/looks, or non-compatibility in interests, but that is OK too. Everyone is not for everyone.

[quote=funlyfriend]We wrote down all of people we knew that had us blocked. Then we went our friends and used their sls account to see their profiles. All but one we had no idea why we are blocked. One who we had long term chat with we reached to them. They said they had no idea how they blocked us and wondered where we went. They unblocked us. Some of these blocks may be unintentional.[/quote]We mostly don't care if someone wants to block us. This is the first time we were blocked by someone with whom we've actually had positive engagement with.

Anyway, they use the forums often, so they can see our profile name in the blocked format, or see replies that quote us. If they realized they blocked us in error, they could change that. If not, I'm sure they felt they had a reason. We made sure we didn't block them accidentally.

We wrote down all of people we knew that had us blocked. Then we went our friends and used their sls account to see their profiles. All but one we had no idea why we are blocked. One who we had long term chat with we reached to them. They said they had no idea how they blocked us and wondered where we went. They unblocked us. Some of these blocks may be unintentional.

In the very few times we've blocked someone is due to their being very pushy and refueling to accept a "Thank you, but we don't feel we would make a good connection".

We had an extensive ongoing discussion with a couple in another part of the country. Shared open galleries, had some very intimate (and hot) conversations, shared some experiences and desires, and had talked about meeting when we would next be traveling to their area.

We were in the process of making plans to visit and wanted to run a couple of potential dates by them, and we discover our conversation is gone. We go to look at their profile, and it says we have been blocked. Hard to believe that was done on purpose as every conversation was really amicable.

Since SLS uses blocking to also stop profiles from showing on searches you really don’t know if it was something specific or if they just aren’t interested and don’t want to keep seeing the profile.

There’s a reason you’re blocked. You just don’t know it or understand it. I block fairly recent as a tool not an insult.

As for blocking to keep people out of searches, I put a note on them and when I search I check only without notes. That way, they do not show up in the search.
I have never blocked anyone. You would have to be a troll and chase me from thread to thread before I would block you.

I get blocking for the purpose so they don't show up in searches.

I don't like blocking forum users because it messes up the continuity of the threads sometimes. To me, that is more annoying than their whining or idiotic views.

no one is ever blocked 'for no reason'. the reasons can vary. maybe they saw you post something in the forums that they didn't like, or maybe they just aren't interested in you

"If people are (repeatedly) jerks on the forum, we ask ourselves, would we ever consider meeting such people"

yup, showing their true selves

Tone policing is emotional abuse.

We block frequently.. those who are idiots on forums, those who dont match what we are looking for, etc etc.. it makes our time on SLS much better !

Its there for a reason.. and we have no problem using it!

Probably folks who saw your profile, decided they weren't interested then blocked you so you didn't clog up their searches etc.

Don't sweat it.

We hae been blocked by people that we have never communicated with or we have never seen their profile. Go figure. Must be the web site.

The instances of someone looking at another profile and thinking "I bet my friend would like this, let me share it with them" has to be exceedingly low.

It may have happened once in a movie.

I block people that are rude. Blocking a whole range of people is ridiculous when you are trying to meet others. You never know if someone might know someone else you will click with.

SLS refuses to provide a way to filter out straight couples, so blocking is the only option.

We have blocked lots of people. Why? Because we were not interested in them. Looks, weight or perhaps they weren't interested in us. So yes we blocked them. This removes them from our searches. .. why the heck would we want a list of incompatible people...we don't, so blocking them removes them from our searches and it removes the chances of accidently contacting them.

Just block them and they’ll never see anything on your profile ever again. Problem solved!

just digging up an old topic to make an observation and ask a question...

appears the block feature is not mutual in that both parties would need to decide to unblock

i had been blocked by someone I know, 100% blocked for sure, today I am not blocked, seems they decided to unblock me, I did nothing in this sequence of events to block or unblock

so it appears you can now unblock and re-open a profile without the other party that you blocked knowing

so block.... weeks later unblock, check out said persons profile/pics/comments/etc, then reblock...

and WayneSLS or whomever, I can send you the exact name of the person that blocked me and now unblocked me so what I am describing appears to be true and can happen

the profile doing the initial block appears to have the upper hand in the control of profile viewing....

There’s always a reason for being blocked. Doesn’t matter if you’ve done anything wrong. The one doing the blocking had a reason, and that’s all that matters. You just move on without them. No great loss.

I know that I've accidentally have blocked people I've chat with and have not figured out how to unblock. It's only a few people. The ones I do block are rude and crude. It's clear they have not read my profile or desired age requirements. Also they start with "Hey Hon" which I detest.