Hi Would it be possible by default that all postings by a certain user to appear blurred? I do not want to suspend him, just to have all his postings blurred. Thank you

You can even choose a duration in the ignore function in Discourse. The posts by that user are shown as hidden replies [_20221126_223547] You can ignore users by visiting their profile and choose irgnored [_20221126_223754] or in your preferences /my/preferences/users Maybe you need to change…

Hello, I don’t think it’s a very good idea if I understand it correctly what you would like to achieve. What I mean you want is hide a specific user all posts with blurred out. But if you really want to do this, then I think the easiest way to add some css. Note: This is a css modification so ad…

This way will it stay always blurred? if another user clicks on the blurred content will it appear like it usually appears when you click on blurred content?

Yes this way it’s always blurred. But I see now, you want it like in the Discourse Spoiler Alert plugin.

Yes, that is exactly. I know a user is bothering a lot of other users. I do not want to block him. I want to give the option to the other users to see his posts only if they want to.

Why not just encourage users to ignore this particular user. That way hiding the bad users content will be done on a personal level. Seems easier to do that than try and invent new ways of hiding a users posts. Seems a bit harsh and to new users it could sound a bit like “hello there new member! Lov…

It is a bit more complicated. We are a very small community (about 60 users) and we get on average 2 new users per month. The users that we want blurred (for periods of time) are not truly “bad” - then we would ban them permanently. They become let’s say erratic depending on the events we are discu…

Blurring all posts by a certain user by default

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Romulus_Filip (Romulus Filip) November 27, 2022, 2:58pm 10

Yes, this works.

Thank to all of you who took the time to answer my question(s).

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Blurring all posts by a certain user by default

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