Block and mute

Every profile that is not your own carries a Block and a Mute button next to Follow. Both act
only on your own account, are reversible, and are never disclosed to the other person. Each click asks
for confirmation before it takes effect.

Block

Blocking someone removes them from your experience entirely. Once you block a user:

• Their posts disappear from your feed, the landing page, and the projects and gists listings.
• Their comments are hidden from you on every post, project, gist and news item.
• Opening a direct link to one of their posts, projects or gists returns "not found".
• Their conversations vanish from your messages, and they can no longer send you a direct message.
• The issue list hides issues they reported.
• They can no longer create notifications for you.

Blocking is one-directional: it changes only what you see. The other person is not told and their
own view of the site is unchanged.

The one exception: their profile

The blocked user's own profile page stays fully visible to you, including all of their content.
This is deliberate, so you can always review who you blocked and lift the block. Use the Unblock
button there to restore them everywhere at once.

Mute

Muting is the lighter option. A muted user can no longer create notifications for you - no follow,
mention, reaction, comment-reply or direct-message alert - but all of their content stays visible
to you across the site. Use it when you still want to read someone but no longer want to be pinged by
them. The Unmute button reverses it.

Block versus mute

	Hides their content	Stops their notifications
Mute	No	Yes
Block	Yes	Yes

Block is the stronger action and already includes everything mute does, so there is no need to mute
someone you have blocked.

Where to manage them

Both are managed from the other user's profile page. There is nothing to configure in settings: the
buttons toggle between Block/Unblock and Mute/Unmute based on the current state, and the change applies
immediately after you confirm.