This makes me far more reluctant to engage in general.
Ethically, I think there should at least be an option to filter these messages from the personal profile feed. Everyone should have a right to forget about encounters with negative people or take action to protect their own mental health above any beyond any platform functionality. If a person is encountering hate, abuse, or for any arbitrary reason, they should not be confronted with any form of reminder when they choose to remove the reference.
(Currently on .world @ version 19.3)
Also, the comments counter for a post and blocked users do not jive.
The best place to check is if there is an open issue on the GitHub page that matches your issue. If there isn’t, create an issue yourself.
Does this one match? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4120