shiosetsuhi, everyone! 
today i bring you a bit of a ramble. i wish myfigurecollection had an adequate block feature
let me preface this by saying this is not a jab at the site nor at the admins/mods. it's simply something i've been thinking about for so long and that has been bugging me especially as of late
the blacklist feature we have now is so outdated and barely works (not to mention actually blacklisting someone is way more effort than it should be)
the reason i wish we had a bonafide block is because the blacklist feature does not do what i need it to do. aside from the usual reasons you'd block someone, a BIG reason why i'd like one is because i engage in lots of conversation surrounding BINDing, native, and other r18 companies. i am an adult, and in the politest way possible, i have no interest in interacting with children. it's not because they're younger than me but rather i do not want to have to vet someone's profile before i make a comment on an article or respond to a question with something meant for people that are 18+. i have blacklisted a few people that i frequently see that are under the age of 18, but it still shows me their articles nonetheless. it's annoying. and i really do not like the twitter-like mute that it adds to their comments. just don't show me the comment. i don't want to know it's there. period.
the other large part of this is that i do not like engaging in or seeing discourse/arguing. i'm a big fan of the philosophy "don't like what someone is doing? scroll away." a major pet peeve on here is when i see people arguing back and forth and throwing insults for no reason. please just give me a one click block button. this is especially relevant when there are a handful of people repeatedly doing this and there's nothing to be done about it. and going along with this, i just want to block people posting vents and oversharing of personal problems that need to be said to a therapist, not to strangers on an anime figure database
and of course my " don't like it? scroll away" is applicable to myself as well, and i do that, but i feel every modern social-based site needs a block feature. everywhere else has it, so why don't we?
i don't have any specific qualms with anybody, but it is an annoyance. does anyone else feel the same way? whether it's agreeing with my reasons or not, do you feel MFC needs an actual block feature?
today i bring you a bit of a ramble. i wish myfigurecollection had an adequate block feature
let me preface this by saying this is not a jab at the site nor at the admins/mods. it's simply something i've been thinking about for so long and that has been bugging me especially as of late
the blacklist feature we have now is so outdated and barely works (not to mention actually blacklisting someone is way more effort than it should be)
the reason i wish we had a bonafide block is because the blacklist feature does not do what i need it to do. aside from the usual reasons you'd block someone, a BIG reason why i'd like one is because i engage in lots of conversation surrounding BINDing, native, and other r18 companies. i am an adult, and in the politest way possible, i have no interest in interacting with children. it's not because they're younger than me but rather i do not want to have to vet someone's profile before i make a comment on an article or respond to a question with something meant for people that are 18+. i have blacklisted a few people that i frequently see that are under the age of 18, but it still shows me their articles nonetheless. it's annoying. and i really do not like the twitter-like mute that it adds to their comments. just don't show me the comment. i don't want to know it's there. period.
the other large part of this is that i do not like engaging in or seeing discourse/arguing. i'm a big fan of the philosophy "don't like what someone is doing? scroll away." a major pet peeve on here is when i see people arguing back and forth and throwing insults for no reason. please just give me a one click block button. this is especially relevant when there are a handful of people repeatedly doing this and there's nothing to be done about it. and going along with this, i just want to block people posting vents and oversharing of personal problems that need to be said to a therapist, not to strangers on an anime figure database
and of course my " don't like it? scroll away" is applicable to myself as well, and i do that, but i feel every modern social-based site needs a block feature. everywhere else has it, so why don't we?
i don't have any specific qualms with anybody, but it is an annoyance. does anyone else feel the same way? whether it's agreeing with my reasons or not, do you feel MFC needs an actual block feature?
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Yes, staff is aware of the desire for a better blacklisting feature. We have a thread about it here thread/19039 if any of you would like to further share your opinions/wishes on it. I wanted to state here that we do have plans for better blacklisting features and they're coming. We also have to consider how further blacklisting features will affect some of the site changes we've wanted to have coming in the future. There is a lot to consider when coding a website and what can or can't be implemented that won't break how the site works. I give all site developers out there everywhere props, it sounds complicated haha.
Staff is aware that it has been taking a lot of time for better blacklisting features to be implemented. The staff that you all see here that is active everyday (moderators and admin) have no ability to access the technical parts of the site. That is only for site producers, so we have no control over when that gets implemented or not. And the team of site producers is not big at all. Can't say much more on that front, but please keep in mind that is it like one to two people.
Priorities, whether we've wanted them to or not, have shifted a lot with some of the stuff that has happened with MFC over the last few months. March, for example, was one of those times. The focus of how the site works started having to be the top priority for that time period. Now priorities are able to be a bit more flexible, so there is room for more change again in the coming times.
I also wanted to address the question of "why has MFC never had a proper blacklisting feature before?". To put it really simply, MFC has changed significantly over the years. I've only been on MFC for seven years, but even in that time period I've watched the site evolve a lot, especially in the years since the pandemic. MFC, for better or for worse, has become a lot more focused on the social aspect of the community. From what I know of MFC way before I was here was that it was far, far more focused on the database aspect of using the site and a lot of the features involving communicating with other users were intended for speaking about the database. Now I'm not saying that there was never a social element to it, but just not to the degree that we're at now.
Thanks to anyone who read my little novel lmao. I didn't intend to write this much, but I guess I ended up having more to say than I thought. Thanks for being here, everyone.
A YouTuber apparently got scammed for a million dollars by a close friend online for his candy company not too recently. Sour Boy, I think it was. The supposed friend ordered a premade machine instead of a handmade one from China, & then drop shipped it to him for a marked-up price. Bailed the moment the order was shipped, & then took off with the rest of money
Yeah, sadly you have to be a bit loose with ignoring people these days. Let's just say you befriend someone on MFC, that has been scamming other users frequently, & then you get lumped up with them. Not much you can say about your yourself. I knew people like that on multiple other community platforms. It happens way too often~
It's hard to avoid underaged users btw. They're everywhere... I also feel the same way, though. I don't want to be caught chatting with another user, who happens to be underaged or much younger than I am, when we're discussing adult or mature figures. I actually have a user blacklisted on MFC, if I'm not mistaken for the same exact reason. When I realized it, I was like... Ok, this makes me feel uncomfortable
I'm not active on MFC anymore, but wanted to add my grain of salt here.
At the stage where I am in my life, I no longer feel any need to block or censor people that I do not particularly get along with or like (or had quarrels with).
Simple reason is that, I do not give people the ability to make me happy, or unhappy. I reserve that power soly to myself. The incessant need a lot of people have to mute, remove, block etc etc is purely because they do not want to be confronted with an emotion or sensation that is triggered upon being reminded that this person is still around, this person did this, this person still exists, oh it's that type of person again. But is this really how we want to live our lives? Being puppet-ed by those feelings and constantly filtering through people we do not resonate with?
Being able to block DM's from certain people, is more than enough IMO. We do not need to keep a blacklist of people we don't vibe with or want to see, it's very unhealthy. Instead, let's try taking a step back and asks ourselves when we do not like something here or someone: what's happening inside of me right now, what am I feeling - Then, watch that feeling assif you are watching an extremely rare animal in a forest, and see what happens overtime.
YES, I am being serious! We're all headed for the same ending, and we may come back or may not, so we needn't worry about what other people like or dislike, we only need to worry about what makes us happy and how we can better get along with each other, even those that we consider our opposites.
This probably isn't something I can agree with as staff, but personally? I fully agree. I really don't think it's healthy at all. Better to learn to deal with it on an everyday basis than to try and change specific parts and possibly fail at it miserably in all other parts of everyday life. Not to mention the fact that often you end up missing out on a lot of things, especially if you apply those standards for blocking people way too loosely.
Today's enemy could be your future best friend.
I don't mind the social aspect on my end, I can tolerate some articles and I'm willing to share my thoughts and experience because I hope that it can help people in the long run; not everyone has a role model, maybe some are seeking them here through figure collecting.
But at the same time, I do take note that some articles for the past months are alarming and worrisome; even if trying to help we don't know the whole story of said user so any advice/help becomes nullified. I'm the latter thinking that it will help but am I wasting my time? Am I going to see the same post by another user with the same problem? Is the user actually reading and responding to their articles? Wait, was OP underage actually? =/
Honestly I didn't even think about what I post to users (18+ or not), I usually keep it clean with everyone but kinda sucks to be reprimanded if someone slips up by accident. UX/UI should be clear with everyone, and that information (are 18+ or not?) should not stay only on a profile. Badge it, tag it or color a user profile picture border by their age range (simple 2 color system, yay more colors).
I haven't used the block feature, so I don't have much to say but it should adapt with the website recent changes.
I'm not active on MFC anymore, but wanted to add my grain of salt here.
At the stage where I am in my life, I no longer feel any need to block or censor people that I do not particularly get along with or like (or had quarrels with).
Simple reason is that, I do not give people the ability to make me happy, or unhappy. I reserve that power soly to myself. The incessant need a lot of people have to mute, remove, block etc etc is purely because they do not want to be confronted with an emotion or sensation that is triggered upon being reminded that this person is still around, this person did this, this person still exists, oh it's that type of person again. But is this really how we want to live our lives? Being puppet-ed by those feelings and constantly filtering through people we do not resonate with?
Being able to block DM's from certain people, is more than enough IMO. We do not need to keep a blacklist of people we don't vibe with or want to see, it's very unhealthy. Instead, let's try taking a step back and asks ourselves when we do not like something here or someone: what's happening inside of me right now, what am I feeling - Then, watch that feeling assif you are watching an extremely rare animal in a forest, and see what happens overtime.
YES, I am being serious! We're all headed for the same ending, and we may come back or may not, so we needn't worry about what other people like or dislike, we only need to worry about what makes us happy and how we can better get along with each other, even those that we consider our opposites.
I very much agree with this.
Besides the block DM, there is also the "alarm" function for posts.
Frankly, I'd prefer that mods take this time to improve other aspects of the site...
As someone who was a super active user in 2008/2009, yeah, no, you are right. In the old days, we did have other places to socialize, but there was a ton of it going on here. Like, you can see the ancient profile comment conversations on my account, and I'm not that good at talking to people! Clubs were definitely a feature really early on, and may have been there since the beginning. I think the difference is that back then, the community was smaller and more close knit and there really weren't any users causing big problems, so a well-implemented blocking system wasn't needed.
I'm not active on MFC anymore, but wanted to add my grain of salt here.
At the stage where I am in my life, I no longer feel any need to block or censor people that I do not particularly get along with or like (or had quarrels with).
Simple reason is that, I do not give people the ability to make me happy, or unhappy. I reserve that power soly to myself. The incessant need a lot of people have to mute, remove, block etc etc is purely because they do not want to be confronted with an emotion or sensation that is triggered upon being reminded that this person is still around, this person did this, this person still exists, oh it's that type of person again. But is this really how we want to live our lives? Being puppet-ed by those feelings and constantly filtering through people we do not resonate with?
Being able to block DM's from certain people, is more than enough IMO. We do not need to keep a blacklist of people we don't vibe with or want to see, it's very unhealthy. Instead, let's try taking a step back and asks ourselves when we do not like something here or someone: what's happening inside of me right now, what am I feeling - Then, watch that feeling assif you are watching an extremely rare animal in a forest, and see what happens overtime.
YES, I am being serious! We're all headed for the same ending, and we may come back or may not, so we needn't worry about what other people like or dislike, we only need to worry about what makes us happy and how we can better get along with each other, even those that we consider our opposites.
Ppl usually don’t get mad when this site (titled my figure collection) hosts goods and stuff as well, so why are people calling for the social aspect to go away entirely? This site can be more than one thing.
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literally this word for word! im not comfortable talking to people who are like... so young they legally cant get a job, and some people just make me uncomfortable and i want to just not see any of their content when im logged into my account lol
Having been here for 9 years, the actual amount of socialization here has been somewhat of a rollercoaster, but I have never felt that was the primary focus of this site. Most of the social features are built around talking about figures, buying/selling figures, etc. If anything, socialization features have been taken away over the years, such as the comment voting system being removed.
Anyway, it has always been MyFigureCollection, and there are many ways to engage with that topic, on top of being a database. Personal story dumps and all that have always been an issue, if you even perceive it that way. If posting an article on a figure site that loosely relates to it makes a stranger feel better, I don't really care. I just won't read it.
Ironically enough, a more useful block function will help those who don't want social functions enjoy the site more. Just block everyone lmao. Maybe it's because I've gotten a bit older and have more pressing issues in my life, but lately some of the things I've seen people angry over on this site just don't make sense to me. I wish I had the emotional energy to spare on such tiny things.
I find MFC to be the worst place to try to Socialize, it's something that doesn't fit well with this website.
It's just not setup for things like that with what modern users are used too thanks to Social Media and simply hasn't changed and adapted to the modern ways of online socializing
This place still has like a early 2000's feel to it with the socialization aspects and I miss coming here to check the database to see more new figures but it feels as if it has been stuck in the past.
I use MFC to document my Collection as well, as well as to keep track of my journey through collecting Anime but with the database being inundated with some of the social media junk that spreads over from those sites of the usual mental health and constant topics stuck in repeat it's to where it would be best for the site to be just as it was intended a Database.