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Blocking a poster on pm’s

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Ziplok Sat 17-Oct-26 14:44:58

Hello, just wondered if anyone can tell me how to block a poster who has posted me a personal message (pm). I’ve just deleted the message without reading it, but I know others have had pm’s from this poster and feel the said poster is somewhat dubious and have blocked them.

I would like to permanently block this poster if they pm me again, but can’t see how to do it, all that comes up is an option to block all pm’s, which I don’t want to do as I don’t want to block all posters, just this one.

Hope someone can help.

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PamelaJ1 Sat 17-Oct-26 15:30:16

I’ve had a message too and couldn’t work out why. I’ve never seen the user name before and it was in response to a post that didn’t really need a private opinion.

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Wyllow3 Sat 17-Oct-26 15:34:40

Open the message in "inbox".
There is a clear "block the sender button"

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CarrotTop Sat 17-Oct-26 16:07:05

If it's a user name that hasn't been seen before, perhaps it's someone new who hasn't yet realised the aversion for private messaging that many people seem to feel. I used to belong to a couple of book discussion groups (many moons ago in the Dark Ages when everything happened by email) and it was perfectly normal to have private discussions with other members quite separately from the main thread discussions. I made some very good friends that way. But then trolling took off as a popular hobby among weirdos, so the practice seems to have died out. Maybe we have a new member who hasn't yet got the hang of the site. I wouldn't block anyone after only one private message (depending upon what it contained, of course!).

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