Chat badge for chatters that have blocked you
Like it says in the title.
I would like for users in chat to have a special badge if they have blocked the user I am signed in as and cannot see my messages in chat or receive a whisper.
This badge should always be visible in a 4th slot (a second global slot, if you will), and be impossible to turn off by any other means, other than unblocking the user for whom it is shown.
It is inconvenient to have to open a user's chat card or channel page to see if the follow button is greyed out to view this information.
My reasoning is as follows:
1. I would prefer not having to waste my time on people who cannot see a response to a question they had, or who do not want to talk to me.
2. If I am a channel moderator, being blocked means that the user cannot receive a warning for their conduct in the chat, and again, I would prefer not having to waste my time on users who pre-emptively block moderators to troll them.
3. Some channels have a policy to ban users who block the broadcaster or the moderators (in essence because of reasons 1 and 2). Being able to see at a glance, without having to give the user special attention, would allow me to ban these users so they can't misbehave in the first place.
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NightmareJoker2 commented
Further ideas: This badge could look like the 🚫 (prohibited) emoji.
There may even be a second type of badge. Red for the current user context, and yellow for the channel owner, moderator and editor contexts, that indicates to broadcaster, moderators, and an API integration, if a user has blocked the broadcaster or a moderator of the channel, such that #3 could be automated.