Relationship

An explicit, directional record from one member to another expressing a social stance. Currently only the block type is supported.

Allowed:

• block (the only active relationship type)
• blocking a member
• blocked member

Forbidden:

• follow (removed; was a relationship type; do not reintroduce)
• follower (removed along with follow)
• friend, friendship (not part of the model)
• connection (LinkedIn-connoted; not the model)
• subscribe (not the model)

Notes:

• The follow relationship type was removed in migration 004_authorization.sql. Do not reintroduce it.
• Circle membership is not a relationship. Circles are derived from private community co-membership, not stored as relationship records.
• Block is bidirectional in effect: if A blocks B, B cannot appear in A's discovery graph and vice versa.

Related:

• circle
• block
• community
• discovery