"Echo Chamber"

I'm glad I didn't find this out first-hand, but it turns out Steam users are very anal about the idea of a two-way block. As it is, all blocking someone on Steam does is prevent them from sending you friend requests, but they can still reply to your comments and tag you and stuff. Some poor fool brought it up on the main Steam forums, now for the past 18 hours he's been roasted for wanting an "echo chamber". One of them just turned on me for bringing up the block-happy nature of Tumblr. (As I never pass up a chance to dunk on those self-righteous weenies.) Guess we're in a moot block now over my attitude? Fine, but now you don't get to complain over blocking anymore, lol. 

Overall, the thread is lame. The idea that being able to block someone off from speaking to you would turn Steam into an "echo chamber" is ridiculous to me. There is absolutely no one on the internet that doesn't have at least a couple people blocked somewhere. By the time I deactivated my Bluesky, I must have had thousands blocking me. I bet even these guys claiming it would form an "echo chamber" have people blocked on their other socials. Even Newgrounds has a standard two-way block, does that constitute Newgrounds being an echo chamber? It's just setting boundaries, which, I guess technically that forms a personal "echo chamber", but that would NOT make the entirety of Steam an echo chamber by proxy. Christ's sake, it literally just means someone doesn't want you talking to them, you are not being "silenced by the echo chamber", you are being told to leave someone alone. I guess by that logic, every website, forum, or game ever where you can block someone you don't like is an echo chamber. Discord? Twitter? Reddit? Wikipedia? FriendRewind? Pony Town? Miiverse? All echo chambers.

After reading that discussion, I must say, Steam moderation has the chance to do something pretty damn funny.