Now you can block obnoxious, unfriendly, annoying, suspicious, smelly, confusing, politically questionable, disconcerting, pernicious, creepy, putrid, dismaying ex-boyfriends, people who want to be your boyfriend who you don’t want as a boyfriend, hamsters, people who dislike Mogwai, that girl who laughed at your hair extensions, insurance salesmen, your ex-husband’s second wife, your ex-wife’s second husband, turtles, astronauts, nose-pickers, people with ugly anime characters as their buddy icon or just about any people you would like to block. Sometimes life is complicated.

When you choose to block someone, it means they:

* can’t comment on your photos (all comments on your photos made by them are deleted)
* are removed as your contact, and you are removed as theirs (they can’t add you as a contact again)
* can’t add your photos as favorites anymore (any of your photos marked as their favorites are removed)
* can’t blog your photos
* can’t add notes or tags
* can’t send you FlickrMail

You can access this feature from the delete page for a comment they have made, and from their profile and photostream pages.