Muting users in 1.7

[charleswalter]

Thought I’d break this into a new topic. Im getting ready to communicate to our users soon about the mute users feature added in 1.7. Sounds very practical

From what I read @zogstrip it sounds like the main benefits are

• blocking users from sending PMs
• avoiding notifications on the user’s posts where you are mentioned but not participating
• avoiding notifications if the user likes your posts

Am i missing anything? Does it stop email notifications if the user replies to your topic? (This might be helpful for future to avoid unwanted )

Would be curious if any other community admins have heard feedback from their users on this feature. My sense is our users will be very pleased

Feature Request: A Civilized Mute for Users

I’m proposing a feature request here for a mute user functionality in discourse. I’ve seen a lot of people express interest on one level or another for the ability to block or ignore users. There’s been a fair bit of discussion for and against such a feature. The biggest argument for a mute feature it to block a users ability to generate a massive amount of notification spam, which itself could prevent a user from using discourse effectively as notifications are lost. The biggest argument agai…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

You get zero notifications from a user you have muted. Zero. None.

[charleswalter]

Great @codinghorror! Does that apply to email notifications as well?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

It should yes. Mailing list mode might be an exception.

[8BIT]

did this get implemented and then removed?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

No it did not get implemented and then removed.