# Ignore User Feature?

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823>\
**Category:** Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823 "2017-10-18T18:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![XtremeLS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/97f17d/32.png) [@XtremeLS1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/XtremeLS1)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823/1 "2017-10-18T18:46:49Z")

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Is there no way to ignore users on this forum?

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**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823/2 "2017-10-18T18:49:11Z")

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There is not, nor is there likely ever to be such a feature, as the co-founder of Discourse (the forum software licensed by GoW devs) is philosophically opposed to the idea.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-or-mute-another-user/6001/16](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-or-mute-another-user/6001/16)

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**Author:** ![Ashasekayi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ashasekayi/32/61090_2.png) [@Ashasekayi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ashasekayi)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823/3 "2017-10-18T18:56:02Z")

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Discourse’s stance on user mute is so bizarre. It really doesn’t do anything positive for a community to not give people a tool to erase annoying and/or trollish people from their own experience on a forum.

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**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823/4 "2017-10-18T19:07:09Z")

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There actually is a way to mute someone, but it requires some technical know-how and an ad blocker. All posts by an individual have a “data-user-id” attribute attached to them which can be filtered out. I tried it a year ago and it worked quite well at the time; but I personally prefer seeing everything (and now my role here requires it anyway!) so I don’t know if it still works.