[quote=@Dark Wind]
I'm tired of people trying to police others' speech. This serves no purpose from my perspective, emphasis on the 'my' as it is an individual opinion and as such, not speaking for the whole. People are going to be rude, assholes, and this will be how life is eternally. Your 'jerk' or 'racist' may be viewed completely differently by another person who has a different set of values and if you can't find the ability to read, comprehend, and understand their perspectives then I find you may be equally guilty of what you accuse them of doing.

Food for thought.
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Not trying to be argumentative here, but I fail to see how wishing I had the option to block/not see posts from certain people who I find to be crude and offensive is 'trying to police others' speech'. Just because they want to act that way doesn't mean I should be forced to see it in the status bar all the time when they're deliberately flooding it by, quite frankly, being an absolute cunt sometimes. When I posted about the 'block' feature I'm talking about having that option to personally, from MY account, block said messages because I DON'T want to see them flooding the sidebar. If it were suggesting "BAN THESE PEOPLE FROM THE SITE FOREVER BECAUSE THEY'RE CUNTS AND I DON'T LIKE THEM" I would understand your point, but I never suggested that at all for a second. 

Quite frankly I don't care what they want to post and how much they want to shit talk people as long as I don't have to see it, and I should equally have the right to say that too *shrug*