soft-blocks
soft-blocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of soft-block.
soft-blocks is the plural of soft-block.
Meaning of soft-block
Verb
soft-block (third-person singular simple present soft-blocks, present participle soft-blocking, simple past and past participle soft-blocked)
- 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.
- 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.2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer
Questions about soft-blocks
- What is soft-blocks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Soft-blocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of soft-block.
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