Per issue https://github.com/tjkessler/plemmy/issues/17, `block_community` did not work as of Plemmy version `0.3.4`. I've tracked down the cause: it looks like the changes made in PR https://github.com/tjkessler/plemmy/pull/15 to the `create_form` utility function, i.e., turning boolean variables into strings, only really applies to `get_person_mentions`, as other functions such as `block_community` actually _do_ require a boolean data type.
mike-fmh: I had to revert some changes you made, but I think my solution of manually converting the boolean to a string fixes the `get_person_mentions` function. Not sure how many other similar functions are affected, feel free to make similar changes and make a PR if you run into any issues.
Very unfortunate that the API has some datatype mismatching, hopefully this will be fixed in the future.
Thanks to AndrewFlan for pointing me in the right direction!