# Bug with Discourse chat silencing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-with-discourse-chat-silencing/242637>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-with-discourse-chat-silencing/242637 "2022-10-21T21:16:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-with-discourse-chat-silencing/242637/17 "2022-10-31T16:52:11Z")

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@j.jaffeux made an improvement for this issue here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1347](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1347)

There are some things we can improve further here in the UI, but this should make it so that silencing a user will immediately prevent them from sending additional messages.

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