2w ago

Blocked Users list : full at aprox 250 entries

i cannot add more blocked users so i went one by one through that list ... starting from the first one i blocked. Not surprisingly, looking at each account, they are either Banned or have No Activity Since ~1 year.

Eventually there could be some site maintenance for [ Banned + Empty ] accounts so to clean our block lists accordingly ...

Some other optimization of this type could be made ... i believe it would free the server from useless work since the server have to compute removing according to Long Block Lists ... this task could be heavy in server work ...

What do you think ?

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Calculating which posts/comments to hide based on blocklist sounds to me like something that could be appropriate to do client-side, so that users with long lists are the ones paying for the computation their choices required.

Another quirk of Lemmy to watch out for.
- Later developments discussed in the post would indicate i have inadvertently induced you in error.
  
  That’s okay you don’t have to like everyone.

I'm over 200 blocked now. It would be nice to have that site maintenance idea working to clear out my list. I'll have to remember when I hit the limit.
- @MrKaplan, administrator of Lemmy(dot)World, answered my wrong(?) post here ...
  My post would make users believe there is a hard limit in Lemmy at something like 250 entries for the block list. This is what i thought while creating the post ... but further analysis by the administrator revealed the problem could be with CloudFlare.
  Please take the time to read the thread to this effect somewhere inside this post.
  
  Very weird. I can't see MrKaplan's post unless I logout, but he isn't in my blocklist. Maybe he's blocking me? I don't really know how the blocks work. Weird, but not a big deal.

while it would likely be a good idea to limit this, i don't see a limit in the code that would prevent from blocking more users. what's the actual error message you're seeing?
- i didn't have any error message but even if i clicked repeatedly on "block user", i did not get the pop up message saying :
  "user_X is blocked"
  ... and when checking it, in my block list, (user x) was not added to the block list
  
  there is a possibility that this was caused by a cloudflare rule that was not scoped narrowly enough to achieve what it's intended for. does this issue still persist for you?
- Update :
  it happens again (blocking user fail without message) but this time i see that the user account doesn't exist when i try to open the user account :
  https://lemmy.world/u/bartlebees
  ::: spoiler bad taste post :
  https://lemmy.world/post/25406359 :::
  Maybe this is what happened last time ?
  P.S. : strangely the page for this account doesn't show the user is banned, but instead shows error message :
  The server returned this error: unknown.
  
  could be that it's the same thing, in this case it's the result of a user deleting their account.

Let me check who I've blocked.......0 users. Who are you interacting with that your feather get so ruffled???
- At your convenience i will provide here a list of banned and empty accounts where every posts were removed by mods ... or dead and nasty (publicity ?) accounts ...
  How many of them do you want ?
  Edit : ( ...@lemmy.world where not spec. ) @reddit_sales_repost_bot@lemmy.ca
  @killjuden@lemmynsfw.com
  @partybot@lemmy.ca
  @MaxVoltage
  @haxor@derp.foo
  @fucker
  @TakeBackAlberta
  @marathon@lemmy.ca
  @NEW1_@mastodon.social
  @TheBigBrother
  ...
  
  Lost_My_Mind doesn't really have an internal filter and just kinda skirts along the surface of life focusing on pop culture. Don't take them too seriously. They're pretty oblivious. And generally happy. Ignorance being bliss and all.

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