eric5h5: I wasn't going to say it, but yeah, no doubt that's where the push-back is coming from. The concern-trolling about "destroying conversations" is objectively wrong considering how widespread blocking has been for many years. That it works fine is not up for debate, since real-world usage proved that long ago. Whether GOG could implement it is a question, but it seems to me the correct answer is that they should switch to something usable like XenForo, rather than try (badly) to reinvent the wheel.