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Reddit is looking to shape itself a bit more around the needs of the individual user in order to make the community more accepting as a whole. Reddit users will soon be able to block and mute other users on the site so they can customize their experience, The New York Times reports.
Reddit co-founder Christopher Slowe detailed the changes in an announcement on the site this morning. Slowe chatted briefly about how powerful the platform’s openness has been, but how a need has been growing to more effectively protect users from harassment.
“…Sometimes this very openness can lead to less awesome stuff like spam, trolling, and worse, harassment. We work hard to deal with these when they occur publicly,” Slowe wrote. “Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve just released a feature to help you filter them from within your own inbox: user blocking.”
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/06/reddit-introduces-user-blocking-tool-to-fight-harassment-and-trolls/