Meta: I’m little at loss where to comment (this Discourse thread? Previous discussion Discourse thread? Blog reply? Or somewhere on deep-linked GitHub page? Somewhere else?), so I’ll do it here as this is the newest one 
I’m interested in implications if a user A (e.g. a newbie who is doing problematic edits on the map) is blocking user B (e.g. good old mapper who knows how things should work, and who notices the problems and tries to contact user A).
As user A would then not receive messages from B after they have blocked them, how would this new functionality impact the process of trying to contact the user and explaining the problem to them?
(This seems likely, as in my experience problematic users often do not like when others alert them that they are doing bad things [no matter how softly they try to do it], so might likely block anybody who tries to warn them)
My evaluation of new situation (when this blocking functionality is implemented) is that user B would, upon noticing that user A is not responding to attempts to warn them but is still active (e.g. producing edits), assume that they’ve been blocked by user A, and would (instead of further trying contact user A) escalate the situation to DWG much sooner (due to other options being /likely/ exhausted).
Is that the intended way the workflow would change, or am I missing something?
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