I was doing some research on how the user ignore/mute feature works (as in, how it actually appears for the user), and the only username I could remember off the top of my head was @codinghorror. So I tried that.
Now, when I go into my profile settings to remove Jeff from the Ignored list, it is removed…but when I save and refresh it’s still there no matter what or how I do it.
Even more strange, when I try to add ANOTHER user (any random user) to the ignore list, I get this error. Maybe related, maybe not, but def unexpected.
I am thinking you have ignored codinghorror sometime ago, and during that time we allowed a user with any trust level to ignore any user other user.
We changed that recently. Now, you can not ignore an Admin or a Moderator, and therefore, when you are trying to un-ignore codinghorror, this action is now disabled since he is an Admin.
Thank! What about non-admin/mod users? I get the error in the screenshot when I tried to ignore a couple of random users (to see if I was doing something else wrong) and it wouldn’t let me. I don’t think they were all admin/mods. Is there a certain level where you can’t mute/ignore anybody yet?
I think I missed one important detail here. Having took a good look at this today, there are a couple of updates that will make this erratic behaviour clearer.
We actually do not block this action, we have this already allowed for any user.
I checked @alexknowshtml user profile and it appears to be that you are a “Basic user”, we only allow “Member” and above TLs to ignore another user. I need to update this post with the latest changes.
We definitely had a bug by showing you the Ignore user in preferences for users who can not actually ignore others. I have a fix for this.
I have cleaned up your list of ignorees and removed codinghorror.
