# Muting a user doesn't hide their posts?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691 "2017-02-20T23:54:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![tortoiseontour](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tortoiseontour/32/513684_2.png) [@tortoiseontour](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tortoiseontour)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/1 "2017-02-20T23:54:44Z")

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Is there a reason muting a user doesn’t hide their posts? There should be a way users can hide content from other users they don’t want to hear from.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/2 "2017-02-21T00:03:10Z")

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This is as designed per  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-or-mute-another-user/6001/67?u=cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-or-mute-another-user/6001/67)

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### Author: ![tortoiseontour](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tortoiseontour/32/513684_2.png) [@tortoiseontour](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tortoiseontour)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/3 "2017-02-21T00:20:06Z")

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I don’t buy the “rabbit hole” excuse. Other forums have solved this problem simply: keep the muted/blocked user’s posts/threads but hide all of their text. Some forums even treat muted/blocked users’ posts/threads with spoiler tags.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/4 "2017-02-21T00:37:32Z")

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> [@tortoiseontour](#):
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> I don’t buy the “rabbit hole” excuse.

If you feel it would be an easy task, you should write a plugin. Not many want this as a feature, but there have been a few and they should appreciate it.

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/5 "2017-02-21T00:55:03Z")

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You can do this with a local CSS customization:

```plaintext
.topic-post article[data-user-id="26487"] .topic-body {
  max-height: 70px;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  opacity: 0.2;
}

```

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muting-a-user-doesnt-hide-their-posts/57691/6 "2017-02-21T00:55:26Z")

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