# Allow regular users to mute staff (more details inside) **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [December 14, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-regular-users-to-mute-staff-more-details-inside/342463 "2024-12-14T21:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-regular-users-to-mute-staff-more-details-inside/342463/10 "2024-12-31T22:38:52Z")
I agree with @HAWK in that you need to choose your staff wisely. Regardless of volunteer or paid Volunteers should generally typically restricted to tl4 or category mods Imho there should also be a Top Mod Level without the need to be an admin to be able to manage other full site mods. That can silence/suspend other non top mods. Because of the powers a full mod has. They can easily without care destroy a community with abuses of power. A member in my community at one time created a tampermonkey script that added an option to block/mute users in the form of an external theme component browser extension. The idea though if extending the block option not hide posts decorated by staff colour is a cool idea. Members need to know if they are having issues with one of the mods they can contact another mod to intervene if needed. A problem with muting a mod. If that mod realizes they are blocked they could choose to use mod powers to cause the user a lot of greif. Here is a link to his topic. It was at that time I believe Discourse did not have a block feature. Also provides some other nice goodies. [https://community.openmr.com/t/tampermonkey-script-to-extend-usability-on-the-pimax-forum/8223/2?u=heliosurge](https://community.openmr.com/t/tampermonkey-script-to-extend-usability-on-the-pimax-forum/8223/2?u=heliosurge) It would need to be updated to reflect changes in discourse since it was made. And could likely be made into a TC or kept as a browser mod extension --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-regular-users-to-mute-staff-more-details-inside/342463)._