Suggestion: List of users who blocked me
I want to have an option (e.g. a list, etc.) so that I can see those users who blocked me.

An example: Some friends are 'sitting' on my list being offline for more than two years. No, I would not unfriend them without being sure. I would want to know who are those who really blocked me so that I can act accordingly.

This feature works well on several other platforms, I have no idea why Steam does not have it. It would help us to keep our friend list clean. Furthermore, it would be fair to know this information on both sides.

Please keep in mind that:
1. There has been no bad intention behind the suggestion.
2. The suggestion/idea has not been motivated by any negative past experience.

Respect each other (including me and the rules too) while answering, please. Thank you.


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart (CPU of Lastation)
最近の変更はLady Noire🌸が行いました; 2021年5月23日 9時54分
投稿主: Yasahi:
wuddih の投稿を引用:
which platform does give you a list of accounts that have blocked you?

Twitter does tell you if someone has blocked you, but they're not offering a list of accounts either. Something like that might be fine when looking at a friend list. Or better yet, automatically unfriend if you block someone. Then we wouldn't even be having such issues in the first place.
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Garou 2021年5月17日 20時22分 
I'd rather see just a counter of people who blocked you.
Lady Noire の投稿を引用:
Example: Some friends are 'sitting' on my list being offline for more than two years. No, I would not unfriend them without being sure. I would want to know who are those who really blocked me so that I can act accordingly.


If they are listed as offline, they have been offline. When someone blocks you, you are given exactly zero feedback about the block. As far as you can tell, everything functions as normal.

A few years back, someone asked about this in Help and Tips and so we got together and did some tests to figure out what exactly happens when someone is blocked. You can find my results posted here: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1291817208493519340/#c1291817208493735975
reaper の投稿を引用:
I'd rather see just a counter of people who blocked you.
Even something seemingly harmless like this I fear would have a terrible consequence of some people deliberately trying to accumulate as many blocked users as possible and then try to boast about it. It would encourage people acting inappropriately to each other. Just like there used to be people bragging about the amount of bans that they had.
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Steam already tells you who blocked you, if you try to add the user. With that you have enough.
When someone block you, it's probably because they had a reason. It makes no sense to Steam make a list of the users that blocked you, because those users don't want you to bother them anymore.

I also don't really understand why would you want to see who blocked you anyways, I mean, you probably have some nice stalker and annoying reason. Adding users that blocked you with any alt or other account its actually harassment and annoying. I don't think it's that hard to move on and make some new friends, that you have to be everyday checking who blocked you.



Lady Noire の投稿を引用:
I won't post links to websites or mention (advertise) them on a public Forum. Sorry, wuddih.


I think you mean, that, you won't post any links, because there aren't such a "gaming sites" or any social media with that feature.

Instead Steam should have an IP ban for users that like to stalk and be annoying or just ban all community without being able to see profiles. That would be a needed feature to stop these kind of user attitude. imo.
This "blocked list" feature would make the "blocking an user" option, useless.
Thank you for those who really wanted / tried to help! :)

A friend of mine was kind enough to help me out, so I will give some feedback here:

If someone blocks me:

1/a. If their profile is friends-only, I will only see a private profile on my list.
1/b. If their profile is public, I will still see their profile.
2. I can't comment on their profile.
3. I can't comment on their screenshots and other content (artwork, review, etc.).
4. Trading is also disabled, I can't send a trade offer to people who blocked communication.
5. I also can't see their inventory.
6. Their friend list count (the number on the right side of their profile) decreases by one. My friend list count remains the same.

The result was that eventually none of the "long time offline" friends on my list blocked me because I'm still able to communicate with them. It seems they just don't use Steam anymore for some reason. Sometimes similar friends come back after years, but hopefully I will find a way to get in touch with them on another platform. :)

A few thoughts:

7. The "very idea" of blocking is to prevent communication with another user. Not to hide the fact that I blocked X. I think it would be fair to let them know. There was a comment in this thread from Yasahi. It wouldn't be a bad idea -> If X blocks Y, they will also stop being friends. Maybe this could work with some warnings from the Steam application: "If you really want to block Y, you will have to send a new friend request later to become friends again."

8. wuddih: Thank you if you wanted to help, I know that "Add friend" will inform me, but these people are already my friends... :) But in general, your answer is true.

9. My "statistics" are correct. I admit not using facebook so I don't know how things work there. There are other social networks (and gaming platforms too) where you have a function (or option) which shows you if a person blocked you. Sometimes you have a list, sometimes you have to navigate to a person's profile and you can see this text: "X blocked you." and a hidden profile. You might not use those sites/platforms but it doesn't mean they don't exist. Directly or indirectly, you can often have this information.

Anyway, my original idea/suggestion is about Steam, so please feel free to further discuss the function if you want. Or not.


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart
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Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:

9. My "statistics" are correct. I admit not using facebook so I don't know how things work there. There are other social networks (and gaming platforms too) where you have a function (or option) which shows you if a person blocked you. Sometimes you have a list, sometimes you have to navigate to a person's profile and you can see this text: "X blocked you." and a hidden profile. You might not use those sites/platforms but it doesn't mean they don't exist. Directly or indirectly, you can often have this information.

You suggested a LIST, not navigating to a profile one by one to see who blocked you, very different things. Also again if those sites exist its very telling that you are adamantly refusing to name them......
brian9824 の投稿を引用:
Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:

9. My "statistics" are correct. I admit not using facebook so I don't know how things work there. There are other social networks (and gaming platforms too) where you have a function (or option) which shows you if a person blocked you. Sometimes you have a list, sometimes you have to navigate to a person's profile and you can see this text: "X blocked you." and a hidden profile. You might not use those sites/platforms but it doesn't mean they don't exist. Directly or indirectly, you can often have this information.

You suggested a LIST

That would be the best and most fair way to do it.💗


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart
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Hanomaly 2021年5月18日 4時19分 
Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
brian9824 の投稿を引用:

You suggested a LIST

That would be the best and most fair way to do it.💗


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart

i think it's a little funny that someone who wants transparency about the block feature is being so coy and secretive about naming a single other forum that supports their position.

It is NOT against the rules to mention other forums on Steam. It is NOT advertising to answer a question someone asks you.

Your refusal to be transparent when asking for transparency is... again... really weird.

i guess you like your privacy (about the other forums you go to)... while... simultaneously wanting a feature that allows you to semi-breach someone else's privacy?? Strange indeed!
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Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
brian9824 の投稿を引用:

You suggested a LIST

That would be the best and most fair way to do it.💗


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart

Again, name one site that presents you a list of people who blocked you and then ask yourself if its the best and most fair way to do it why no one does it.......
SA の投稿を引用:

Instead Steam should have an IP ban for users that like to stalk and be annoying or just ban all community without being able to see profiles.
IP blocking has not been viable for years, due to dynamic IPs and VPNs. Block an IP, and that user has a dynamic IP through their ISP or a VPN, and the next person who is randomly assigned that IP suddenly finds themselves blocked for no reason. My ISP uses dynamic IPs for home users, you actually have to pay more to get a fully static IP or have a business account. My IP changes every few days, or I can manually force change it at will.
Gwarsbane の投稿を引用:
No you don't need a list of people to go harass, which is what at least some would do with this ability. And yes they could do it by making new accounts that aren't blocked.

This feature is not needed.
:steamthis:

I 100% agree with this.
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Chef の投稿を引用:
I think this goes against the very idea of someone blocking you.
As much as i agree with you the followers list already works as such to list people who blocked you. I know as i have done things in the past when i was with a bad group of friends a few years ago.
I would like to mention a simple fact (a, and b, together):
a, We have a blocked users list -> Users who we blocked.
b, We don't have a list of those users who blocked us. There is no symmetry (and fairness) here.

I don't agree with those comments which say it would affect anyone's privacy. From my point of view, those two lists are not different and they both contain information in connection with my profile. I have zero knowledge about IT but I have my own feeling that Valve already knows the information about case b. So they should just make that list visible to the users. I don't think it would be very complex work.

I also don't agree with those who started to talk about harassment, I don't even know why. I'm sorry, I've never got harassment from anyone. How is it that I don't have negative experience? People are generally kind and helpful with me. I've never had to use the block function.

@Hanomaly: Privacy is also important for me. I set my profile to friends-only as you can see. The purpose was not to avoid harassment but it was to stop certain people from unwanted data collection. There are websites (I won't name them, again) which cache profile information without permission. But that could be the topic of another thread. So you can see, I take privacy seriously, but if nobody harassed me in my ~20 years, it is hard to believe it..

I don't add / accept people who I think would harass me. So, in my case, the solution is so simple. And blocking is not even necessary. But this is only a personal opinion, you may have more experience and I respect it.


Lady Noire a.k.a. Black Heart
最近の変更はLady Noire🌸が行いました; 2021年5月18日 8時24分
Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
I would like to mention a simple fact (a, and b, together):
a, We have a blocked users list -> Users who we blocked.
b, We don't have a list of those users who blocked us. There is no symmetry (and fairness) here.

I don't agree with those comments which say it would affect anyone's privacy.

Because you're the one trying to invade it. lul
Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
I would like to mention a simple fact (a, and b, together):
a, We have a blocked users list -> Users who we blocked.
b, We don't have a list of those users who blocked us. There is no symmetry (and fairness) here.
What fairness? If someone blocks you that is there business and its their choice and they have a right to have that private. Otherwise you could bother them with an alternate account and defeat the whole purpose of them bein blocked.


Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
I don't agree with those comments which say it would affect anyone's privacy. From my point of view, those two lists are not different and they both contain information in connection with my profile.
False, someone blocking you doesn't effect you at all, it effects what THEY see.

Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
I have zero knowledge about IT but I have my own feeling that Valve already knows the information about case b. So they should just make that list visible to the users. I don't think it would be very complex work.
Of course it wouldn't be hard to do, but it would make no sense and defeat the entire purpose, and as repeatedly mentioned no site in the world does this for that reason.


Magical Noirina の投稿を引用:
I also don't agree with those who started to talk about harassment, I don't even know why. I'm sorry, I've never got harassment from anyone. How is it that I don't have negative experience? People are generally kind and helpful with me. I've never had to use the block function.
It would be used to harrass people, you can see who has you blocked and then harrass them with an alternate account.

Again its a crappy idea, and as its been repeatedly pointed out you cannot name a single website in the WORLD that allows you to see a list of people who blocked you. There is a reason for that......
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