OTW/AO3 basically All Lives Mattered us. They committed to features that can benefit everyone (+ prevent criticism of racist fanwork ). The ones that actually focus on racism are wishy washy noncommital "maybe but it's complicated and will take a looooong time."

I'm for blocking commenters IF there is a mechanisms in place to warn fans of racist content. ATM, commenting is the only recourse fans have when they see racist content.I agree, that's not ideal. But if you remove that without a warning system for racism, it silences Black fans.

Understand that Black fans are ALREADY flagging racist works in our own networks. It's not enough because a lot of Black fans choose not to engage w/fandom socially, but read fanfic on AO3, so they are out of that loop, but should be protected too.

It's also not a great system because the only recourse is the comment section, which encourages swarming. An archive warning + blocking feature could warn fans of racist content AND block swarming. It should be a system, not just picking the thing that shields ppl from criticism.

Finally, this is not about flagging entire ships. It's about fics that actively abuse Black characters for fun etc. Those things happen in ships with COC too. We can choose not to see ships in search results, but that's not a guarantee we won't be subjected to racist content.