# The Ignore User feature (now in 2.3.0.beta7)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [6 בפברואר,‏ 2013,‏ 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525 "2013-02-06T17:53:50Z")
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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: [9 במרץ,‏ 2014,‏ 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525/16 "2014-03-09T22:52:57Z")

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If that community doesn’t push the bad apple out, it will be a dead community soon enough. Might as well leave now if the moderators are unwilling to take action.

Either a community pushes out the negative, or it withers and dies:

> **[The Bad Apple: Group Poison](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-bad-apple-group-poison/)**
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> A recent episode of This American Life interviewed Will Felps, a professor who conducted a sociological experiment demonstrating the surprisingly powerful effect of bad apples.
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> Groups of four college students were organized into teams and given a...

> **[Dealing With Bad Apples](https://blog.codinghorror.com/dealing-with-bad-apples/)**
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> Robert Miesen sent in this story of a project pathology:
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> I was part of a team writing an web-based job application and screening system (a job kiosk the customer called it) and my team and our customer signed on to implementing this job kiosk using...

Ignoring problem users is a short term and short sighted solution.

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