soft-block
See also: softblock and soft block
English
Alternative forms
- softblock, soft block
Verb
soft-block (third-person singular simple present soft-blocks, present participle soft-blocking, simple past and past participle soft-blocked)
- (Internet, transitive) 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.
- 2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:
- 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.
-
Noun
soft-block (plural soft-blocks)
- (Internet) The act of doing this.
- 2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:
- 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.
-