It was suggested in Global Chat that there is a simple way to make home-street stealing less convenient and much less attractive.
Blocking a person keeps that person from coming into your home street.
I look forward to seeing Tiny Speck create a simple and just solution to this problem, as they did with the herb-garden stealing "gameplay." Until they fix it, doing something for ourselves is better than nothing.
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edit: I just want to respond to a couple of mistaken interpretations of what I said here and what I meant here. Perhaps I was too condensed, and if so the thread below has made up for it by becoming TLDR and full of poo-flinging.
By "defenders of thieving" I did not mean "people who have expressed a philosophical point that stuff left on home streets can be taken but not 'stolen.'" By "defenders of thieving" I meant people who were actively and multiply expressing an interest in the question of "stealing" with an emphasis on sneering and sniggering at the disappointed folks whose attempt to be generous had left them missing some property taken from their home streets. People who laugh at others feeling grief are, in my opinion "trolls and bullies." Furthermore, people who repeatedly defend item "takers" and sneer at people who had items taken from them are, in my opinion, promoting and enabling the actual thieves, whether or not they themselves pick up random items.
The point of this post is that something has changed in Glitch since, 4 days ago, blocking somebody keeps that person from coming to your home street. That is, when enough people block somebody, that person will be inconvenienced in harvesting by making circuits through other people's home streets. My hope was that, if people used blocking to indicate their disapproval of trolling and bullying that related to street theft, it would discourage some glitchen from posting about how street-thieves were Glitch's own Robin Hoods while the people who tried to share feeders and butterfly milkers and street decorations are low-IQ whiners who simply deserve to lose everything.
Operationally, if we use blocking to express our opinion that x or y or z is a troll or a bully, only the most universally obvious trolls and bullies will be inconvenienced in any way. And that is just as it should be.