Communicating with a friend who blocked me.

[Aquasp102]

Recently, my friend blocked me, and I don't know why. I was playing Terraria with him for a while, and then he was inactive for about 2 weeks, and he came back saying that his PC broke down. He was active for a day, and then inactive for another 2 weeks. I didn't think much of it as I assumed he probably got rid of his new computer because it had a problem, and then he would get another one eventually. I sometimes check to see if he's online, but when I checked today, he was off of my friends list. I checked players that I recently played with online, and I saw that he blocked me for some reason. I know it wasn't an accident, because when you block someone, they don't get removed from your friends list. I don't mind that he blocked me, but I just want to know why he blocked me. I wasn't doing anything wrong in his eyes from what I saw, as we got along well.

This post is to mainly ask two things. First of all, what happens when I send a friend request to someone who blocked me? Will they see it, or will it not go through. Second, is there an easy was to get in contact with the user's other friends. I would look into their profile, but it's private, and I would say his username to see if someone else is familiar with him, but I'm not sure if that's allowed, so maybe someone can tell me if it is, or if I'm just stuck. And before you ask, no, I not some kind of stalker that's addicted to this person. We just made so much progress in Terraria, and I don't want that to go to waste.

TLDR: My friend blocked me, and I want to get in contact with them or their friends, even though they have a private profile, or I want to know if they'll see the friend request I send.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

doesnt sound like hes your friend.

[999999999]

Don't try to bypass the block in any way. The feature is working as intended and can be considered harassment to try to contact the user through other means.

Just wait and see if they unblock you or not.

[Hyer Womba]

just make a new account and message him
if he blocks that one make another account
repeat

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

Originally posted by Hyer Womba:

just make a new account and message him
if he blocks that one make another account
repeat

That's how you get community-banned.

[Knee]

Originally posted by Vixinity:

Originally posted by Hyer Womba:

just make a new account and message him
if he blocks that one make another account
repeat

That's how you get community-banned.

which account

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

Originally posted by Knee:

Originally posted by Vixinity:

That's how you get community-banned.

which account

All the ones involved.

[Hyer Womba]

Originally posted by Vixinity:

Originally posted by Knee:

which account

All the ones involved.

the simple fix is to make another which isnt community banned

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

Originally posted by Hyer Womba:

Originally posted by Vixinity:

All the ones involved.

the simple fix is to make another which isnt community banned

And then that gets banned again after it's reported. You'd be spending US$5 each time to be able to add someone in the first place, so feel free to waste money doing something where they can easily block and report each time.

[Hyer Womba]

Originally posted by Vixinity:

Originally posted by Hyer Womba:

the simple fix is to make another which isnt community banned

And then that gets banned again after it's reported. You'd be spending US$5 each time to be able to add someone in the first place, so feel free to waste money doing something where they can easily block and report each time.

you dont know maybe he has rich parents

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

Originally posted by Hyer Womba:

Originally posted by Vixinity:

And then that gets banned again after it's reported. You'd be spending US$5 each time to be able to add someone in the first place, so feel free to waste money doing something where they can easily block and report each time.

you dont know maybe he has rich parents

Doesn't matter. Block + report only takes me 2 minutes.

Some tool once created 5 alts to try to spam me, last I remember all his alts got community-banned. He lost interest because I didn't bother communicating to him at all. Just block + report and go about my day.

[🅷🅴🆇🅴🅽]

It still fascinates me how people still think that their desire for communication has to be fulfilled.

Blocked is blocked. It doesn't matter whether you like it, want it, or stomp your foot on the ground.
Nobody has the right to be heard if the other side doesn't want it. What happened to the word "acceptance"?

[LunaFortuna]

Originally posted by ⛧heXen⛧:

It still fascinates me how people still think that their desire for communication has to be fulfilled.

Blocked is blocked. It doesn't matter whether you like it, want it, or stomp your foot on the ground.
Nobody has the right to be heard if the other side doesn't want it. What happened to the word "acceptance"?

This "acceptance" you speak of can only be reached if closure is involved. If there is no closure given to someone, then, acceptance is replaced with a sense of wondering why things happened the way they did. It is natural to want to find out why someone who you used to speak to (online or IRL) suddenly doesn't want to talk to you anymore.

"Nobody has the right to be heard if the other side doesn't want it" - ehh... murky gray area here, to be honest.

Prime example: I'm in my late 20s, now. I went to elementary, middle school, and high school with this one girl. We were best friends. We went everywhere together. We had sleepovers. We were joined at the hip. As adults, we hung out often, as well. We messaged each other a lot via social media. We literally NEVER had an argument or a fight. Ever. We never had drama. We weren't those types of friends that had drama. I had just messaged this girl and she messaged back, and we went out for coffee and all that jazz. We left things off on very good terms. Two weeks later, she blocked me. I don't know what I could have possibly done to make her block me. We had no conflict whatsoever. My social media was blocked, my number was blocked, my Skype was blocked - I was blocked everywhere. I made another account and I reached out and asked her to give me an explanation, but, she just read the message and blocked me again without ever explaining. Several years went by and I made another account and messaged her, but, she read my message and just re-blocked me. To this day, I have no idea why my best friend decided to block me after we went out one day and had a lovely cup of coffee and had nothing but friendly exchanges between one another.

I won't bother her anymore, but, don't preach about acceptance. Do I think my best friend owes me an explanation for why she threw away a friendship that has lasted since 4th grade well into our mid 20s? Yes, I think she does owe me that explanation. But I won't ever message her again, because as you said, "blocked is blocked. It doesn't matter whether you like it, want it, or stomp your foot on the ground." so here I am, striving for the acceptance you seem to think is so easily attainable.

(FYI, I am well aware that my IRL example concerning my ex-best friend is an extreme example, and doesn't really compare to an online friend blocking you for no seemingly valid reason. I guess I'm just proving a point that it's normal human nature to want to know why people do the things they do and to seek answers.)

[🅷🅴🆇🅴🅽]

You said it: RL.

We're speaking of internet "friends".

[Kargor]

If you can't communicate other than through Steam, then it's not a friend, just some online acquaintance. Just ignore it, and remove him from your list to avoid cluttering it with too many garbage entries.

And no, there is no way to ignore blocking. Blocking is MEANT to shut down communication.