I don't think so is a great idea to blacklist a user, this is a decentralized platform and thus it's not a good idea to censor any user, then Hive will not remain a decentralized one.
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Blacklisting in the sense referred to here is not censoring. It's a way a user can put a warning beside an account's name, to remind themselves (and potentially others, if they opt-in to use your blacklist) that interactions with that account should be handled with care.
Truthfully, blacklisting is probably the wrong word to describe what this feature does, but it's the existing name that's been used for the centralized version of this feature, so I continued to use it for continuity purposes.
I got the point, but again don't you think it can be a misuse where if without a warning (which used to happen) people will be adding someone on blacklist
These new lists just allow someone to say they don't trust this set of people. They can then try to convince other people to accept their judgement.
But there's no coercion in any of this: it's an exchange of information and each user makes his own decision about the reliability of that info.
There is a need to prevent spam, which has been undertaken to destabilize the network for some time. Blacklists have enabled the network to continue to function despite such attacks. However, blacklists are presently only optional at the point of front ends, and users themselves do not have any control over what is filtered from their feeds, other than by choosing which front end to use (and I believe all popular front ends provide the same filtering at present).
Enabling users to choose from available blacklists would distribute that choice of filtering, while maintaining the ability of the network to prevent destabilization. Your feed is filtered by blacklists now. This idea will allow you to choose the conditions of the blacklist that filters your feed, which is currently not available to you.
I got the point and thus I know blacklist is operational as I can see in Hive.blog, my only concern is its misuse, yeah I know its beneficial but if its getting misuse.
Presently blacklists are global. The same blacklist that filters your feed filters mine, and neither of us chose to apply it. @blocktrades proposes that we choose whether our feeds are filtered by blacklists, and which filters apply. One user would no longer force every Hive account to be filtered by the blacklist they make, as happens now.
Your choice of filters on your feed does not now affect my feed, and would not after this proposal is adopted. Right now both of us have filters on our feeds we did not choose and cannot change. Right now abuse could happen.
After we can choose what filters our feeds, abuse can no longer happen.