Muting/Ignoring Users and Categories

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What is this guide?

This will teach you how to mute or ignore users/categories.

Difference between Ignore and Mute

Users

Ignore Mute
Surpass all posts, likes, Personal Messages, or any notification related to this user for a certain amount of time. You will also not see any posts or topics related to this user. You can set a time top stop ignoring the user. Surpass all likes, Personal Messages, or any notification pertaining to this user.

Categories

There is no difference between Ignore or Mute with Categories.

Mute
You will not be notified of anything about new topics in these categories, and they will not appear on the categories or latest pages

Ignoring or Muting a user.

(Thanks to N316TS for letting me use their profile as an example! :slight_smile: )

Note: You cannot ignore or mute staff members (Moderators and Community Managers) on the forum.

To ignore or mute a user, you can do this in a few ways.

Via the User Menu

  1. Find the user you want to ignore or mute.
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  2. Open up their user profile by clicking their Profile Picture twice. Then click “Normal” under “Message”

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  3. Then click “Ignore” or “Mute”
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Via your Profile

  1. Open up your User Preferences and click “Users”

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  2. Click Ignore/Mute

  3. Enter in the name of the person you would like to ignore/mute.
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  4. Click “Save Changes”
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What happens after muting/ignoring a user?

All notifications related to that user will be surpassed for both Mute and Ignore.

If you ignore a user, all posts and topics will be shown in the forums but will be hidden.

A reply from an ignored user will look like:

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And a topic from an ignored user will look like:
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There you have it! That is how to ignore/mute a user.

Muting a Category

  1. Go to your Profile and click “Preferences” then Categories

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  2. Scroll to “Mute” and enter the Category/Sub Category you want to mute.
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  3. Then click “Save Changes”
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So now, instead of your home screen looking like this without the ignored category:

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It will look like this:

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HOWEVER, the category will still be visible at the bottom of your home screen.

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You will then:

  • Not see the category
  • Not receive any notifications related to the category
  • Not seeing any posts from the category in New or Unread.

In closing

If you every have a user that you don’t like or have a category that really doesn’t pertain to you, then this is a great way to hide what isn’t relevant for you.

If I am missing something or should add something, please send me a DM at @HamMan2118

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