But: Will Garry Tan add a block button to HN?
Not that I would ever use it.
This feels like déjà vu, because at one point the tech community was saying that a private company, a CEO, can do whatever they want. They can totally block people they don’t like politically. Now it seems one of their own is doing it and it’s not sitting well with people. A little hypocritical.
> It can be an effective way to handle unwanted interactions from accounts you do not want to engage with,” Twitter says on a help page.
"unwanted interactions from accounts" --- when did people become accounts?
I checked, he didn't block me. (And I'm very critical of YCombinator on Twitter.)
But, proactively, I blocked him.
I rarely block people, but I love using the mute button. That feels like so much less drama since they don't even know the mute happened. (None of the fallout of those tweets with the blocked screenshot crying foul.) What am I missing out on that makes blocking worth it's more "public" nature?