Reply #88: I think this sounds like punishment for the person who is

[seaglass]

blocking others - as if they are doing something wrong. Likely it's because of the prevalent attitude that I'm seeing of blame the blocker. There really are people that deserve to be blocked (or at least I would block them if they treated me the way I see them treat others).

In fairness, I think names shouldn't be exposed but numbers should - for every poster on DU.

Somewhere, maybe along the line where access to the users profile/PM is could be a designation that states:

This person has blocked X number of users
This person is blocked by X number of users

I don't honestly know what I think about the block feature. I think it has a legitimate purpose for some people and I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to people that they won't use it with bad intent (and I still do believe that most won't), but I have to say I haven't seen so much calling out of other posters as I have in the last few days - it's creating a lot of ill will, hurt feelings and anger.