blocking content

Hi, I don't normally block anyone in this game due to how it affects instancing and still have zero players on my block list, but I am wondering, is there any way to block a player from communicating with you completely (e.g. system chat, dms, etc) but not break instancing? Reason why I am...

So I was playing back in 2015-2016 and became achieved Baron rank with the empire before taking a good long break from the game. I come back and I lost ALL of my rank. While I still have my federation rank that i acquired before ever ranking with the empire. Had them both ranked up but now...