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Can I suggest a DEFCON system? Whereby DEFCON 1 blocks all PMs, replies to comments / posts, replies to replies to your comments, etc. all the way up to DEFCON 5, where users may only be filtered from view in feed / global / chatter / globalchat? On the spectrum of "control given to the user", it removes a lot of the customizability of how I block / ignore someone. But I think it would be safe to say that if I don't want someone PM'ing me, then I probably don't want them replying to my threads nor do I want to see their posts. It might also simplify the current system, as I think a few people have noted that "filter" / "hush" / "mute" are not quite as intuitive in meaning as we might hope...