"soft-block" meaning in English

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      "form": "soft-blocked",
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      "form": "soft-blocked",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: hard-block"
        },
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          "ref": "2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "social media",
          "social media"
        ],
        [
          "unblock",
          "unblock"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet, transitive) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soft-block"
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: hard-block"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:",
          "text": "Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:",
          "text": "And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.",
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        "The act of doing this."
      ],
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          "Internet",
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        "(Internet) The act of doing this."
      ],
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      "form": "soft-blocked",
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    },
    {
      "form": "soft-blocked",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: hard-block"
        },
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          "ref": "2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "social media",
          "social media"
        ],
        [
          "unblock",
          "unblock"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet, transitive) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "transitive"
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    }
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  "word": "soft-block"
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: hard-block"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:",
          "text": "Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:",
          "text": "And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of doing this."
      ],
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        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
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        "(Internet) The act of doing this."
      ],
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