A black box you can’t look inside making determinations that could affect your access to the entire site. How dystopian. It’s also pretty clearly only useful for pruning users en masse and not have to bother with the responsibility a moderator should be subject to.

Please, threaten me with more exclusives. Please, put more excerpts for shows to promote your network exclusives, and see what I do.

IMO, blocking should only be limited to hiding comments and prevent them from directly replying to you, and it should also be transparent to other users if the parent comment or a nested child comment is blocked or being blocked. Depending on the person you are blocking, it also shouldn’t be permanent but have an expiry date. If they are clearly a hate filled bigot, block for a decade, if they are immature, for a year or two, if they are just worked up in the moment, weeks to a month. Sort of like banning, but at an individual level.