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by silisili 1195 days ago
Or reply with a short slam dunk, then delete the comment. They'll see the notification and be able to read it, but can't reply.
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This is how blocking works now. They changed it sometime relatively recently.

Utterly deranged.

blocking is even better because everyone else can read it too, so it just looks like the blocked person had no response to the comment and accepted “defeat”