Ignore/Block Moderators/Staff

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Barney T. Administrators

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No, moderators and staff can not be blocked for obvious reasons. Individuals with bad intent could block moderators from doing their jobs. We have lots of spam/ users who sign up with bad intent and we are constantly cleaning the board of these troublemakers. The ability to block us would severely hamper us from doing our job. If any member has an issue with a staff member or moderator, you may PM a Supervisor, Steven P. or me to look into the matter. 

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+Nik Louch Subscriber²

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Fully know where this has come from…

If we cannot block mods (for yes, the stunningly obvious reasons), then perhaps one could not start arguments where they don’t need to exist and people are trying to help each other.

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adrynalyne

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I know exactly what this stems from. I reported it earlier. That was not  behavior becoming of a moderator. I get people can be cranky and moody, but those are reasons not to be a moderator if it affects you that much.

 

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Nick H. Supervisor

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On 13/06/2025 at 19:21, Circaflex said:

Would you be open to allowing users to ignore/block staff/moderators here? When trying to do so now, you cannot add a mod/global mod to your ignore/block list. Curious why this is setup this way, is there any way around this?

It seems like something has happened with a moderator and you're not happy about it. In those situations, please either report the situation or drop another member of staff a PM to voice your concerns.

You cannot ignore a moderator. Likewise, we are not allowed to use the ignore function to ignore people we disagree with. It's not going to change.

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adrynalyne

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On 13/06/2025 at 12:24, Nick H. said:

It seems like something has happened with a moderator and you're not happy about it. In those situations, please either report the situation or drop another member of staff a PM to voice your concerns.

You cannot ignore a moderator. Likewise, we are not allowed to use the ignore function to ignore people we disagree with. It's not going to change.

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Nick H. Supervisor

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Another point to consider: community rules say the following:

 

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Respect Moderator Decisions.
Threads and posts questioning the actions or decisions of forum moderations will be deleted on sight, and the appropriate action taken (up to and including forum bans) against the thread starter and/or participants. However, as a member you reserve the right to PM any moderator, supervisor or administrator regarding action taken at Neowin.

That is not to say that a moderator can't be wrong, but if there is an issue with moderation we would prefer that it gets brought to our attention privately rather than publicly. Making a spectacle of something would hardly endear me to the reporter's plight.

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+Nik Louch Subscriber²

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Agree - and to that end, I’m not questioning a mods decision, as they didn’t perform an act of moderation on my posts - rather they seem to wish to keep creating drama where it doesn’t exist.

However, point taken and will just use the Report functionality as you would any other user :)

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Circaflex

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On 13/06/2025 at 12:37, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

WTF? I can't believe you are surprised it's not an option or it should be. 

In my mind, I might not want to see what they post and the easiest way to do that was to add them to my ignore list.

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On 13/06/2025 at 14:00, Circaflex said:

In my mind, I might not want to see what they post and the easiest way to do that was to add them to my ignore list.

Exactly.  How does it hamper anything? So the user blocks them and the mod bans them. Not like blocking them blocks the ban lol. 

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Yonah Member

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On 14/06/2025 at 21:14, firey said:

Exactly.  How does it hamper anything? So the user blocks them and the mod bans them. Not like blocking them blocks the ban lol. 

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Taliseian

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I run a very small Discord server that handles news and discussion on a few games - less than 25 members so far, but growing. 

I would NEVER allow anyone to block or ignore myself or any of the other admins.  

If myself or an admin gets blocked, we are unable to perform the duties that I asked them to on the server - one of which is to moderate chat and ensure things stay (mostly) family friendly. 

Since it's my server, I am the Final Boss on the server and if someone doesn't like it, I will gladly show them the door.

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