# Mute User Doesn't Work **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 23, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994 "2020-04-23T08:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sassy/32/36147_2.png) [@Sassy](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/1 "2020-04-23T08:40:46Z")
Why is there no Block User option? The best we can do is to mute a user which only stops notifications generated by said user. This serves no purpose since we are still subjected to a muted user’s posts. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/2 "2020-04-23T10:11:44Z")
Sadly, that’s a decision made by the makers of this forum software. It’s been hotly debated on Discourse’s own forums. ---
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/3 "2020-04-23T12:33:45Z")
Yep, comes down to a lot of conflicting viewpoints. If I’m right about who started this software, they’re pretty big on the opinion everyone should have to see every possible view. People bring up the concept of trolls or jerks, but the opinion is, “moderators should take care of behavior they do not want to promote.” We just had that conversation here and decided everything’s juuuuuust fine. If you’re not using mobile, there might be a browser extension that handles it for you. A long time ago I made a mute feature for a forum before this kind of feature even existed. ---
**Author:** ![jeno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeno/32/20235_2.png) [@jeno](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jeno)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/4 "2020-04-23T13:06:35Z")
look at preferences/users/ignored. that might answer your request. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/5 "2020-04-23T13:20:43Z")
Lyya wrote a workaround for this problem some years ago: > [@Ignore User Feature?](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ignore-user-feature/31823/4): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ChunkyMono](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/chunkymono/32/69308_2.png) [@ChunkyMono](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ChunkyMono)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/6 "2020-04-23T16:17:00Z")
Even “Ignore User” doesn’t work in my opinion, as it only lasts for a limited time, and during that time you will still see ‘1 hidden reply’ notifications in threads. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sassy/32/36147_2.png) [@Sassy](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/7 "2020-04-24T00:30:40Z")
Well since I cant mute anyone and after 2+ years of reading (and very occasionally contributing to) this forum, I cant take seeing a couple of people’s arrogant and obnoxious posts every day anymore. So this is goodbye for me. Edit: this will no doubt be flagged. Probably by the aforementioned party and his/her loyal stooges. ---
**Author:** ![Saltypatra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/saltypatra/32/59750_2.png) [@Saltypatra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Saltypatra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/mute-user-doesnt-work/62994/8 "2020-04-24T01:32:18Z")
Unfortunately, Discourse doesn’t have a feature for this, like mentioned above.