Would be SO helpful to include a block button easier to get to

I never block a player, unless they make me wait for a REALLY long time for no good reason or are rude or pull some major crap, so why do we have to be 'punished' by having to tediously click through GUI layers in blitz chess just to to get to the button to block a player (on web and phone apps)?

I only block clearly abusive, or inexcusably negligent players who it seemed pretty obvious 'ran away on the clock' and deliberately left me waiting for a minute and a half because they knew they lost the game. I realize sometimes it's just an accident, but I will block those people anyway. Otherwise, I don't make a habit of blocking people, because I know that thwarts the matching algorithm.

Making me work harder to block a player is NOT a deterrent from blocking players that I've decided to, it just makes life harder on me (and other victims), by not making it as easy to block a player as to friend them.

I hope the extra hassle is designed-in mostly to prevent accidental blockings. I really hope it's not to discourage hastiness in a politely patronizing but mildly authoritarian way of discouraging blocking, because, since I don't gratuitously block anyway, being impeded only creates a stress, inconvenience, wastes time, and most importantly, doesn't change the outcome.

If you're worried about accidental clicks of the blocking feature, why don't you just have a confirm dialog or have an 'advanced' preference that lets people who play thousands of games and know the terrain back-and-forth have the option for quick block or abort? You already know when people abuse the rules and ethos.

If the block feature was set up as a toggle icon on the first info pane about a user, so blocking *and* unblocking were straightforward and easy, I think it would just make life better for everyone.

Currently it takes two clicks. One to get to their profile, and another to press the block button. I wouldn't call this very time consuming, nor hard work.

It takes us away from the screen and I don't do it often enough to have it so habitual and automatic that I don't have to spend some time thinking and looking around. While it's not egregiously difficult, it definitely interjects an unwanted layer of inconvenience that several features I don't use often or at all don't. Of course, we *can* deal with it, but it would be an optimization, for sure, to make it as easy to access as the other features.

I think that by time I'm bugged enough by another player, such as from sitting around for no good reason for 1.5 minutes that one extra inconvenience almost feels like the universe conspiring against me (hyperbole). Just an irritation. But, in an ideal world, it would be nice to trust your users to select the configuration that is optimal for their own workflow since there's been a lot of thought into making other features easy. I think that's why themes and interfaces that are really flexible are nice because it's really hard to second guess in advance what is right for everyone. But as a pro s/w developer myself who spends a lot of time dealing with 'real' problems I know that these requests for enhancement add up.

BTW: As a long time user of Chess.com (but not for a couple / few years), I have to really compliment you guys on the design and maintenance and spirt of this truly truly excellent, well engineered, well designed and well maintained site, which I find more thoughtful, discrete and brilliant. I mean, even if I don't get what I want for this request (and I still hope I do), it's clearly not a show-stopper, just a mild irritant for at least some of us :-)

Anyway, you get so so much more right than wrong. I like to feel like I'm good at what I do in sw development, but the professionalism and vision you've brought to this site is something that is an exemplary level of mastery and I thank you. I could only hope to have the sense, skill, consistency and professionalism you guys bring to this.

Maybe you even waste more time by writing long complaints against Lichess than clicking twice for blocking someone?