# Feature Request: A Civilized Mute for Users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-a-civilized-mute-for-users/22114>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Novembre 12, 2014, 6:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-a-civilized-mute-for-users/22114 "2014-11-12T18:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Mars 23, 2015, 4:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-a-civilized-mute-for-users/22114/21 "2015-03-23T04:58:58Z")

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I started working on this today, first thing I did was added this little user preference for: “Allow users to send me private messages”

This is simplifies some bits of civilized mute. When we show a modal saying that “you may not send PMs to this user” this could happen cause you muted them OR you just do not accept PMs so there is a level of plausible deniability here.

I am uneasy with the original spec @accalia I feel that if you are muting a user you are not only “sort of muting” to protect yourself from mention bombs and quote abuse. I think that muting is a last resort thing:

“This user has gotten on my nerves SO much that I don’t want to see blue bubbles from them or green bubbles from them ever”

Its a simpler spec, a lot easier to explain and what I will be going with. I worry that if we allow for too much fidelity here it can get confusing very fast.

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