# Não é possível remover usuário ignorado no meta.discourse.org
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [Abril 18, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407 "2019-04-18T14:17:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@alexknowshtml](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexknowshtml)
#### Post date: [Abril 18, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/1 "2019-04-18T14:17:17Z")
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.
Feels funny to report “can’t un-ignore Jeff Atwood” but…here we are 😆
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### Author:  [@Tarek\_Khalil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarek_Khalil)
#### Post date: [Abril 19, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/3 "2019-04-19T00:49:53Z")
Thanks @alexknowshtml for reporting this 🙌
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.
We should fix / clean that up 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Abril 19, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/4 "2019-04-19T01:02:50Z")
Right but UN-ignoring a staff member is by definition safe and shouldn’t need to be blocked.
This could also happen if you ignore someone and they are later promoted to admin or mod.
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### Author:  [@Tarek\_Khalil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarek_Khalil)
#### Post date: [Abril 19, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/5 "2019-04-19T01:03:57Z")
Totally. We need to fix it up 👍
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### Author:  [@alexknowshtml](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexknowshtml)
#### Post date: [Abril 19, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/6 "2019-04-19T11:02:43Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Tarek\_Khalil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarek_Khalil)
#### Post date: [Abril 23, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/7 "2019-04-23T10:28:59Z")
> [@Tarek\_Khalil](#):
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> 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.
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.
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Right but UN-ignoring a staff member is by definition safe and shouldn’t need to be blocked.
1. We actually **do not** block this action, we have this already allowed for any user.
2. 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-ignore-a-user/110254) with the latest changes.
1. 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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7415).
2. I have cleaned up your list of ignorees and removed `codinghorror`.
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### Author:  [@Tarek\_Khalil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarek_Khalil)
#### Post date: [Abril 23, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/8 "2019-04-23T14:24:54Z")
I have updated [this meta post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-ignore-a-user/110254) with the latest features we shipped 🚢
UPDATE: I think I can close this topic since the cause was treated here.
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### Author:  [@Tarek\_Khalil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarek_Khalil)
#### Post date: [Abril 23, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-ignored-user-on-meta-discourse-org/115407/9 "2019-04-23T18:41:41Z")