Which roles are allowed to mute other users?

[Jack_Smith]

is everyone allowed to mute or it has to be trust_level…

[NateDhaliwal]

IIRC any user can mute any other user. If the user goes to /my/users, they can add to the list a user to ignore, supressing “all posts, messages, notifications, personal messages, and chat direct messages from these users” (direct quote), or mute, which does almost the same, save that of supressing posts.

[JammyDodger]

I think it may be from TL1 up now to mute a user. Having a quick check with a TL0 test user, the option doesn’t appear in the user-to-be-muted’s profile, and navigating to their Preferences/User tab just gives this:

There is a green tick against TL0 for muting users in Trust Level Permissions Reference, so that may need updating.

@NateDhaliwal

they can add to the list a user to ignore

Also, I believe the ignore feature is available from TL2 up (by default)

@JammyDodger

Typically, the Ignore feature is available to users Trust Level 2 and up, though can be tweaked per site with ignore allowed groups. So there’s a chance you either haven’t reached that level yet, or the admins of the site have changed it away from the default.