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Part of the [[social network portability]] effort.<br />
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== introduction ==<br />
Many [[social networking]] sites provide the user the capability to "block" or "ignore" other users of those sites, typically because those other users are stalking, trolling, harrassing, or [http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/angrynegative_p.html behaving negatively] in some other way.<br />
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The "block list" effort documents how current social networking sites are handling these interactions in the hopes that this research can be used for developing a portable block list that a user could privately share with other sites (probably via [[oauth]] or [[openid]] or both) so that they could block a troll on one service, and have the troll automatically blocked on other services as well.<br />
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== examples ==<br />
See [[block-list-examples]].<br />
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== formats ==<br />
See [[block-list-formats]].<br />
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== brainstorming ==<br />
See [[block-list-brainstorming]].<br />
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== issues ==<br />
When this section grows too large, move it to [[block-list-issues]] and leave a link in place.<br />
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Does a block list need to represent levels of animosity? Most examples in the wild are binary: either someone is blocked or they aren't (unlike XFN or other buddy list taxonomies that allow for degrees of intimacy and clarity).<br />
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Couldn't this be an addition to XFN then, or would it be out of scope? --[[User:AlexandreSolleiro|AlexandreSolleiro]] 16:36, 27 Oct 2007 (PDT)<br />
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It's not clear, since XFN has a strictly positive/neutral scope, and the use-cases (and user interfaces) of friends lists and block lists are so very different. In particular, so far, the [[block-list-examples|research on block lists]] shows no taxonomy at all. Just a simple list of people that are "blocked". Therefore that should perhaps be the basis of a first attempt at a microformat.<br />
[[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 23:06, 27 Oct 2007 (PDT)<br />
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===template===<br />
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== see also ==<br />
* [[block-list-examples]]<br />
* [[block-list-formats]]<br />
* [[block-list-brainstorming]]<br />
* [[social-network-portability]]<br />
* [[hcard-xfn-supporting-friends-lists]]</div>CnaolOc4tv