{"id":160936,"date":"2016-04-07T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T06:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160936"},"modified":"2016-04-07T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T06:36:41","slug":"reddit-launches-user-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/160936-reddit-launches-user-blocking.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit launches user blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/announcements\/comments\/4dmnn6\/new_and_improved_block_user_feature_in_your_inbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reddit has released<\/strong><\/a> a feature to help its users filter spammers and trolls from their inbox &#8211; user blocking.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit said anyone can voice their view on the platform, which &#8220;leads to great communities and deep, meaningful discussions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, sometimes this very openness can lead to less awesome stuff like spam, trolling, and worse, harassment,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The user blocking feature is part of its work to deal with unsavoury posts on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can now block users that reply to you in comment replies. Simply click the \u201cBlock User\u201d button while viewing the reply in your inbox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The profile of the blocked user &#8211; and\u00a0their comments, posts, and messages &#8211; is removed from the user\u2019s view.<\/p>\n<p>The company said these are the first steps toward improving the experience of using Reddit.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Reddit<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/140914-reddit-launches-news-website-upvoted.html\">Reddit launches news website Upvoted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/119562-google-reddit-to-ban-nude-photos-and-video.html\">Google, Reddit to ban nude photos and video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/94210-reddit-seeks-profit-through-geek-culture-bazaar.html\">Reddit seeks profit through geek-culture bazaar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has released a feature to help its users filter spammers and trolls from their inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,8045],"class_list":["post-160936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}