# Ability to Block a User from a Topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-a-user-from-a-topic/43146
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 25, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-a-user-from-a-topic/43146 "2016-04-25T00:03:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Carson1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/carson1/32/51212_2.png) [@Carson1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carson1)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-a-user-from-a-topic/43146/1 "2016-04-25T00:03:17Z")

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At times I felt it would be benificial to block someone from a specific topic. Thought this could come in handy sometimes when someone is being rude or has received multiple flags in the said topic. Maybe the system could automatically do it after a set amount of flags in the topic. They can just be blocked from posting in it all together to prevent further conflict.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-a-user-from-a-topic/43146/2 "2016-04-25T00:58:20Z")

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There is no per-topic ability to block a user. If asking them to stop via PM does not work, I suggest suspending them for a time interval (prevents all login), or blocking them (prevents posting).