# How do Hidden Comments work?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 4, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-hidden-comments-work/213840 "2022-01-04T18:32:54Z")\
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> [@Dan\_Eastwood](#):
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> The Muting part works as intended, but the IGNORE sets MY preferences to ignore them (instead of each other). In hindsight that’s probably doing what it should, and I misunderstood the function of Ignore.

I’ve just tried this for myself, and trying to Ignore a user on a test user’s preferences changed my preferences instead.

I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s supposed to work. I think it might be a bug.

Steps:

- As Admin, go to User A’s Preferences/Users page
- Under ‘Ignored’ click Add, and enter User B in the modal (plus a timeframe)
- Save changes  
  
- Refresh page - no user is ignored in User A’s preferences
- However, User B’s posts are now hidden for the Admin

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