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I agree, the author is conflating the ability to report and block a user due to their content and the ability to report specific content of that user.

All they had to do is add a link to report the specific contentId that user created.

The author was blinded by frustration and didn’t read.

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This could be clarified by a quick phone call to a Google developer support engineer.

If Google is "too big" to run a competent support department then it should be broken up.

From the Day 2 email, they're not conflating the two:

> The only user generated content on the app is

> 1.) Comments (which you can report or block by tapping on the comment)

> 2.) User Profiles (which you can report or block by tapping "More" in their profile

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