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zulip/help/mute-a-user.md
Shubham Padia 7ce87c66ac help: Make loose lists tight for help center files.
In our current implementation, loose lists and tight lists look the same
visually. Loose lists are lists with blank lines between list items, and
the contents of a list item should be enclosed in a paragraph tag in
that case. For unordered lists, paragraph tags have a bottom margin in
starlight and thus looses lists look much more spaced out than tight
lists.

That is not the behaviour we had in mind while writing the
documentation, the reason we had all these loose lists is to make the
documentation easy to write and read. So we attempt to remove all the
blank lines and fix the problem at source. Since paragraph tags are used
for other purposes in a list in starlight, it won't be a wise decision
to let the source be as is and just change things in css, other expected
behaviours might break in that case. See this topic for more details:
https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/19-documentation/topic/new.20help.20center.3A.20regressions/near/2226084

All the changes were made by a one-off script which has not been
commited to the repo. The script wasn't perfect and could not decide
between blank lines that make a list loose vs blank lines necessary for
a sub-list or a code block inside a list item. A manual review of all
the changes was done before making this commit to ensure that no
unintended changes were made to the help center files.
2025-07-22 14:36:25 -07:00

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Mute a user

!!! tip ""

This feature mutes a user from your personal perspective, and does not
automatically notify anyone.

You can mute any user you do not wish to interact with. Muting someone will have the following effects:

  • Combined feed sent by a muted user will automatically be marked as read for you, and will never generate any desktop, email, or mobile push notifications.
  • Combined feed sent by muted users, including the name, profile picture, and message content, are hidden behind a Click here to reveal banner. A revealed message can later be re-hidden.
  • Muted users are hidden from Direct messages in the left sidebar and the list of users in the right sidebar. Direct messages between you and a muted user are excluded from all views, including search, unless you explicitly search for dm-with:<that user>.
  • Muted users have their name displayed as "Muted user" for emoji reactions, polls, and when displaying the recipients of group direct messages.
  • Muted users are excluded from the autocomplete for composing a direct message or mentioning a user.
  • Muted users are excluded from read receipts for all messages. Zulip never shares whether or not you have read a message with a user you've muted.
  • Recent conversations and other features that display avatars will show a generic user symbol in place of a muted user's profile picture.
  • To avoid interfering with administration tasks, channel and organization settings display muted users' names and other details.

!!! tip ""

Muting someone does not affect their Zulip experience in any way.

Mute a user

{start_tabs}

{!user-card-three-dot-menu.md!}

  1. Click Mute this user.

  2. On the confirmation popup, click Confirm.

!!! Tip ""

You can also click on a user's profile picture or name on a
message they sent to open their **user card**, and skip to
step 3.

{end_tabs}

Re-hide a message that has been revealed

{start_tabs}

{!message-actions-menu.md!}

  1. Click Hide muted message again.

{end_tabs}

See your list of muted users

{start_tabs}

{settings_tab|muted-users}

{end_tabs}

From there, you can also search for and unmute users.