I’m experiencing a recurring issue in my Discourse forum where I receive notifications that users have been silenced. When I check their public profile, the silenced status is displayed prominently at the top. However, when I access their admin profile panel, the “Silenced” field shows “No.” This c…

Does the profile show a reason for the silence? something like this? [image] The profile and the admin page should be pointing to the same source, so it’s strange that they’re out of sync. Do you notice the same thing mismatch in safe mode ? do you have Allow anonymous mode enabled?

This is what it looks like for the users: [image] [image]

Oh they’re not silenced then, that counter at the top “1 stummgeschaltet” is intended to show that they were silenced once at some point in the past. If you click on it you should see when they were silenced originally in the logs: [image]

the user was silenced by the system because they typed too fast, but by the time I look into the user’s profile, it has always already been reversed.

Thanks, then has been both automatically silenced and then reversed again.

User Shows as "Silenced" Publicly but Not in Admin Dashboard

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awesomerobot (Kris) 4 juni 2026 om 21:39 6

In that case the silence would have been lifted automatically if the flag was rejected in the review queue

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Show "silenced" as avatar flair for silenced users UX	10	1549	7 juni 2023
Silenced user `Reason` no longer visible on user admin page Bug fixed	2	133	25 februari 2025
How to unsilence a user who innocently tried to copy & paste and got silenced Support	10	948	11 maart 2026
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User Shows as "Silenced" Publicly but Not in Admin Dashboard

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