Moderation suggestions for Bluesky

Some user experience suggestions for Bluesky around blocking/muting and generally controlling the content and people you see.

Blocklist (mute/mute list) of people

1. When viewing a shared block list, it should hoist certain people to the top:
   1. the people you follow,
   2. who follow you
   3. (and ideally — altho this is much more complicated — the people you reply to, and/or people your mutuals follow)
   4. it should say what the relationship is: "you follow them" "they follow you" "mutuals" etc.
   5. …so you can click a checkbox next to a name to remove someone from your individual application of that list before applying
2. Need to be able to review a block list you used after applying, and it should also hoist people up, so you can see if you've had unintended consequences already applied, including to check individual accounts to see if it was maybe put together in bad faith
3. Blocklists in general should be sortable, including sort by # of followers (after the section of "you know these people") to see if they are being used in bad faith to shut down popular critics etc.

Mutes

I love that you have timed mutes and an exception for followers on mute keywords. We could use some more controls.

1. Mute reposts and quote posts on an individual account level instead of the entire timeline (although please do keep this global feature, it's awesome)
2. Mute a person for a time period
3. Renew mutes that expired with 1 click instead of having to re-enter them
4. A way to save/share a mute list of multiple keywords with an editable duration for that entire grouping, e.g.: "keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4"
   1. don't think they need to be broadly shareable, like blocklists are, but maybe a copy/paste thing to share with a friend, or to save in your Notes app for later application during, you know, Events

When blocking an individual

I know it makes sense from an architecture standpoint that blocking someone doesn't make them unfollow you — they created the follow-record, and you can't or shouldn't be able to "edit" their record, however… the soft-block is necessary for harmony because it reduces an irritant without being too obvious, and it also isn't as harsh as a full block.

Much like a block-record prevents them from seeing my posts entirely by overruling their follow-record…

There should be a "can't follow me" record I can create that will supercede their follow-record. The way federal law supercedes local.

My wishes about who may follow me are more important than the wishes of someone who wants to follow me. That's why I can block them, after all.

Hide post vs mute post

Currently if you click "Hide Post" on, for example, the top post of a thread someone you follow is posting that aggravates you, it hides it completely and forever. Same goes for a news article or image that is being reposted 50 times a day.

This is great for really bothersome content you absolutely don't want to ever see again, including in search.

But much like muting a person, you may just want to not see a thread constantly updating etc. without sending it to the abyss forever.

So we should be able to…

1. "Soft" hide a post without making it permanently inaccessible, e.g. it should show up in their profile and search