Guild Wars 2

Blocking trolls does not keep them out of my party.

I have had to repeatedly kick 500 ap level 3 trolls who have 0 AR from scale 50 fractals where you need to be level 80 with 70AR, I have had trolls repeatedly join my LFG party just to remove it because they don’t want me to recruit defenders.

Block currently hides blocked players LFGs from YOU but does not keep them out of YOUR party. That’s not how kitten is supposed to work. People block each other for a reason and you guys dont ban people that get reported, so you need to just fix the block function to keep trolls out of your LFGs, and then everyone wins.

Toxicity.5392:

Blocking trolls does not keep them out of my party.

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…That’s not how kitten is supposed to work.

That is how it was designed to work. There are various reasons why it might be okay to have someone on your block list join a party. (For example, during a recent Tequatl fight, I was on a defense team with someone I had blocked for trolling /map; I unblocked them, fight went well, they were a worthy ally; I reblocked them afterward.)

On the other hand, as you say, there are also good reasons to prevent those on the block list from joining a party. I’d be in favor of changing the LFG + block mechanics to enable this as an option, although I would say that this is way down on my priority list.

It should be a priority because of the way the lfg system works. If you have to relist your party serveral times you need to find a friend to create the LFG for you because it will supress your message and list the group as blank. This is exactly what such a troll wants.

Toxicity.5392:

It should be a priority because of the way the lfg system works. If you have to relist your party serveral times you need to find a friend to create the LFG for you because it will supress your message and list the group as blank. This is exactly what such a troll wants.

Document what’s going on & report the troll via a support ticket.

I agree it’s a problem, but it’s limited in scope to a few trolls. I’d much rather see ANet take action against them than try to build a technical solution, which is likely to have unintended consequences, will need tweaking, and won’t necessarily prevent trolling (just reduce one form of it at best).

Anyhow, either way, for better or worse, the system wasn’t designed to do this — I recommend creating a new thread to make the suggestion, in the general discussion forum.

In other games, blocking people kept them out of your party. I don’t see the big deal.

As long as it doesn’t affect pvp queue, everyone wins, nobody loses, except maybe anet for having to assign devs to it. As you said there could always be a toggle or seperate block list.

I personally only block people (that aren’t gold bot spammers) for one reason: I don’t want them in my groups…ever. I don’t block people because I don’t want to see their chat. It’s easy to ignore it.