Soft-block
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of soft-blocking. Internet
"Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string."
Verb
- 1 To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts. Internet, transitive
"Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute."
Example
More examples"Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute."
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