# 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.