# Exclude "Suspended" and "Blocked" users from username auto-complete
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** mentions
**Created:** [January 27, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574 "2016-01-27T13:55:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/1 "2016-01-27T13:55:47Z")
It would be nice to see “Suspended” and “Blocked” user excluded from the username auto-complete.
From a long list of historically banned / suspended users…
… sometimes another user mentions the banned or suspended users accidentally whilst meaning to mention an active user.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/2 "2016-01-27T15:08:09Z")
Or at the very least they should be differentiated from “normal” users.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/3 "2016-01-28T03:09:53Z")
We used to do this, I thought. I am not sure blocked users should be unmentionable though, but suspended users. And staff would need to be immune. Are you sure that giant list of caveats is worth the hassle?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/4 "2016-01-30T11:01:01Z")
It doesn’t need to be a long list of caveats if they’re just differentiated from the rest like @zogstrip suggests. Maybe a red-ish background and an icon or just the words “suspended/blocked” on a newline.
There are many valid reasons for mentioning a user after they’ve been blocked, like you’re talking about the events that led to the blocking, so we shouldn’t be completely hiding it anyhow.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/5 "2016-01-31T01:51:03Z")
My experience is that there is no-need for **non-staff** to mention suspended or blocked users.
Even for admin staff the need diminishes to near zero for long term suspended or blocked users.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/6 "2016-01-31T01:55:01Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Or at the very least they should be differentiated from “normal” users.
I’ll have a look since I’ve been working on autocomplete stuff recently.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/7 "2016-01-31T02:34:43Z")
Probably fine if it can be limited to staff and admins can autocomplete blocked / suspended users. Visually they should be greyed out or similar..
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### Author:  [@Tomas\_Hnyk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tomas_Hnyk)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-suspended-and-blocked-users-from-username-auto-complete/38574/8 "2025-04-11T11:19:19Z")
Seems to me like this has been completed, I cannot find a suspended user in autocomplete.