I know you could create a new user group and add them to that but that’s somewhat clunky and I don’t even know if it would work because if you blocked “Block Group” from using the section, any other groups they’re apart of would just override it. Trust levels can’t do it because it would apply to a “random” group of selected people, not necessarily the one the trust level would apply to.

You could remove them from groups that have access to whatever category (I think that’s what you mean by “section”) that you don’t want them in.

Would the Discourse Dynamic Groups plugin be good for this?

@kartoon were you able to resolve your issue? Groups are definitely the way to go as you suggest yourself. You have to set up your groups and categories so that only the members have access to the categories that you want to have access. There is no way in Disourse to create a group that excludes them from categories.

Is there a way to block a specific user(s) from a specific section?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) September 27, 2025, 11:38pm 2

Hi there, may I ask what section you are referring to?

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Is there a way to block a specific user(s) from a specific section?

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