In Account settings under Interface a user can elect to select the option to “Hide my Public Profile and Presence features”.
However, this appears to cause an unintended effect as while the Profile can no longer be selected and will no longer show any information to other users whether signed in or not, the other users also can no longer interact with that Profile to either mute or ignore it. Effectively this option allows users to prevent their accounts from being muted or ignored by other users.
It may not be possible or easy, but the mute or ignore options should ideally be able to be interacted with on every user account, regardless of if the account in question has enabled the option to hide their public Profile.
You guys do an awesome job here, and I know it’s always very difficult to find fringe issues like this, particularly when testing or primarily interacting with the site on an admin account.
Great pointer, hadn’t noticed you could do that. That seems to work even for users who have made their Profile non-public so that seems to be a perfect workaround.
Great! As @Gavin reminded me, the Discourse dev team is focused to bring more features for discussions, not avoiding them. So, some of these ‘blocking’ options are not ‘easy’ to find cause the core idea is that through conversation, the community should overcome any differences, not just outright block/mute someone. It’s like this: Let’s talk, and if we really don’t want to see anything from some user or users - then there are options to deal with it.