Blocking, hiding and muting

These three get confused constantly. They do different things.

Block a person

Open their profile and select Block. A blocked person cannot message you or start a conversation with you.

Blocking is about contact, and it is the right tool when someone is bothering you directly. Manage your list under Settings → Privacy → Blocked users, where you can also unblock.

If someone is harassing you, block and report. Blocking protects you; reporting is what stops them doing it to the next person. If it happened in a direct message, read the note on reporting messages there first — moderators cannot see your conversation, so what you write in the report is all they have to go on.

Hide a post

The ⋯ menu on any post offers Hide, which removes that single post from your feeds. Nobody is told.

Hiding is undoable only from the toast that appears immediately afterwards. There is no "hidden posts" screen to recover it from later, so if you are unsure, hide it and use the undo before it fades.

Mute a community

Also on the ⋯ menu of a post: Mute community removes everything from that community from your feed, without leaving it.

Unlike hiding, this one is reversible whenever you like — muted communities are listed with an undo under Settings → Community.

Not the same as the community bell

The bell on a community page controls whether new posts there notify you. It does not hide anything. Muting hides posts; the bell controls notifications. Changing one does not change the other.

Which do I want?

Problem	Tool
A person is contacting me	Block
A person is breaking the rules	Report
One post I do not want to see	Hide
A whole subject I am tired of	Mute community
Too many notifications from one community	Turn off its bell