while blocking is vital for safety, many, many, many use it to spread hate/avoid rejection/punish/silent treatment. Doing it so without a real danger/threat leads to resentment..creating and continuing the hazardous cycle of stalking/obsessing.
So merging these two features could filter out the reasons to actually block someone, not just an impulse or bad interaction. We more than anybody would benefit from kindness to heal our long number of wounds that discrimination has done. One of them avoidant behavior, not opening up also.
Instead of blocking can Grindr act in our behalf and give us an option to let down politely if there's not a match? like an expiration chat? or make blocking not that aggressive? like making the other person just see a blank profile that says offline? that could be much more easy to digest.
Or to have suggestions to let down like:
sorry I had another idea in mind, we right now are not a match but in the future maybe.
Which in many cases happened, people change their minds and gave the chat a second chance.
But with blocking specially in a small town is super awkward to look at each other again
.. speaking about community...
So when safe, let each other down easy please. We can do better.