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by bigstrat2003 630 days ago
I would say that the point of blocking is to prevent someone from contacting you. Not to prevent harassment.
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The point is that contacting you isn’t always needed to harass you if the opponent have enough influence (or bots under his control) to harass you with its minions.

Of course it could be bypassed but it requires effort and most harassers are in fact pretty stupid people who just happen to have an influence over a group of people as stupid as them.

Seems like a distinction without a difference.