If it’s the same sender, you can block via your email I suppose.
Go to the blocking filter and choose “from” or “has the words” so you can type the username there.
But definitely let the admins know, they will suspend the member if they send offensive messages to people (like someone spamming religious messages was suspended I think).
If you get offensive private message here in the forum, you can flag it as well just like the public messages.
I did it, but there is no “block user” tool, so she can keep offending me. I think this tool is necessary.
Good idea, I didn´t think about the email settings to block. I will do it right now.
The postcrossing team will ban the user. But I understand there is a delay so you may receive a few more messages before she is gone.
This shouldn’t be replaced by a button in my opinion because it would solve the problem only for you, not for the whole community. People who are nasty to others simply shouldn’t be part of postcrossing. If everyone just blocks them and don’t report, they will be still free to send hate to more people.
So sad to read that…I thought we were safe of the “bad people” here… Naif of me… I hope you’ll find a way to block this person. It’s terrible to receive offensive messages. But please contact the “help team”!
First, I think that if anyone is offending/bullying someone, that individual blocking is not the best decision, it should be brought to attention of admins before more damage is done not only to you but to others too and to community as a whole Also personally after digging into trust levels functionality (How do trust levels work?) I forever prefer flagging as ‘other’ with explanation rather than ‘offensive’.
Checking the mute/ignored options we can apply individually to any other user, made me think of hypothetical situation:
Then I made some experiments to show how it works and looks:
This is part of profile of any user, as you see options normal/muted/ignored are available
But if certain user chose to have their public profile hidden then these options are not there!
But you can still ignore them manually in Preferences (top right menu) and choose time frame for that decision from day to forever:
Their replies in topics and in PMs will now be shown as hidden but you can click on them (which would be a case for tags, for example)
Topics made by these user will still show in the list in category but if you click on their topic the content will be hidden and you wouldn’t be able to see it at all (at least I didn’t find the possibility)!
I asked the permission of the user I was ‘ignoring’ and we explored the functionality of the forum together, if anyone asking 
So as good as this function might be for someone to feel comfortable, it has a potential to cripple not only a person whom somebody ‘ignores’ one-sidedly, but also can cripple your own tag-games activities and create a invisible division and influence the community’s heath IMO 
That doesn’t concern the muting option which I consider quite mild and if you have some differences with someone in my opinion it’s the best option so you will see their messages accidentally with clear head and be reasonable and not hurt/emotional yourself.
I agree. And to my understanding offensive and bullying messages are removed. So there is no need to block. The flagging is better option instead, so the admins will see what the message is.
I understand the blocking in other forums better, when there is not other interaction between members.
But here, we might be swapping or getting address to one we blocked.
It’s good to understand that people disagree, they have different opinions/religions etc, and it they like to write about things I don’t, I don’t have to read that topic. In my opinion, blocking is that there is something personal against that member. And it would be better solved, than ignored. Of course I know there are young people who maybe didn’t yet learn skills to solve disagreements, or how to cope with someone not agreeing with them, and everyone must be like them. But this is good place to be around different people
Also to think about it, will they send the card if they get the address to the one they blocked? Will they register if they get the card from the blocked one?
As well it’s a little worrysome that do people really want to form a bubble, where they keep only the ones who think like them? Then it makes a distorted group, who think they are right, because no one disagrees. I have already seen someone/s use “we”, like the one who disagrees didn’t belong here, and it’s “them” against the disagreer 
. Not good.
We experimented futher - when someone blocked you, when you try to send them PM to request address for tag there will be a warning that you can’t send it because the user is not accepting messages right now
Forming bubbles is one of my concerns too. Because when you don’t see opinions others from yours, it creates a positive feedback and your own opinion might get radicalized further and further.
But official addresses and cards, the blocking doesn’t work there, I think?
The same persons from forum are there too, so the blocking won’t work.
Well, no, blocking doesn’t exist there on official site afaik. But I saw countless profiles saying for example ‘I will never send or register a card from/to Russia’ and probably if people from Russia send something, it goes to trash unregistered and no cards sent 
Admins try to poke these users to remove these lines from profiles, but it wouldn’t mean such users will change their principles and start officially sending cards to Russia, when they assigned an address.
Of course they are! From public threads for sure.
Not that it’s common, but some users can continue bullying in PMs theoretically… I mean it’s normal to continue communication with people you like to talk with before in public parts, but privately. Anyway, you can ‘invite’ admins to PMs too and flag any messages in PMs, if it goes sideways
It would seem the “block” function isn’t a true block, rather an ignoring of a user.
I’m going to start by saying the ability to ignore another user is an important one, and vital for the health of any online community. If, for example, someone is determined to argue it is better to ignore them than escalate the situation. Plus it’s important that we all have control over who we interact with.
However, I do see issues as it’s one sided but I’m not sure how to resolve those. A full block where Person A has blocked Person B and therefore person B can’t see any of Person A’s messages would indeed cause issues in the tags and other games, unless there’s a message saying “This person has blocked you” to indicate a post person B can’t see… but I can hear the complaints now.
I will add (having solved nothing) that muting as an option isn’t good enough to protect from potential stress/arguments etc as the posts are still there and visible, while the Ignore option hides them which is preferable.
It’s even called ‘ignored’ I would never argue it’s important functionality to have.
I tried to explore it a bit as it looked to me personally a bit confusing of how everything will look like after muting/ignoring, so I hope now with screenshots not only the person who want to use that option will be aware of what will happen and what to expect but also people who might encounter being ignored can figure out how it looks like.
Muting will forbid a person to send you PMs (where most of invisible bullying might happen, since in public area messages are moderated) and you will not see any notifications from that user replying or @ you. IMO it’s good enough to avoid seeing someone’s messages. If you’re following a discussion thread and want to participate a discussion but choose to ignore in a dialog one of the opinions (which is not offensive if not removed by admins, right?). It feels a bit weird to me when someone expects to see only one type of opinion on public discussions, that ‘we’-thing @S_Tuulia mentioned (EDIT: Actually person who ignoring everyone who has different opinions doesn’t see any other, so using of ‘we’ is justified, since all opinions which don’t belong are hidden and community seems united and healthy )
I take your point, but not everyone is able to be civil or even particularly kind. Yes, we can flag up comments to the moderators, but if someone is abiding by the guidelines that won’t very much help.
In a perfect world, we’d all agree to disagree when it comes to trickier discussions, but this isn’t a perfect world. Plus there are always those who wish to poke the bear as it were for their own fun (every community has them).
Muting, therefore, isn’t enough. If you’re trying to read a 200 post thread and someone in that thread has been needling you, you can no longer take part in the discussion as a whole because you’ve been driven out and have no control over seeing that person’s messages.
It’s not about a “bubble” or only seeing opinions and ideas we agree with, it’s about understanding that some people will only ever argue with each other. There will always be personality clashes, and personally I’d prefer people to be able to “turn off” the conversation if they’re getting to the point of anger and possible abuse.
That’s either bullying (=reported to admins) or you can’t withstand other opinions (I can understand when the formulation of opinion is rude - then flag it and user receiving a flag can reformulate it).
This! Yes, I think I understood what you mean. It makes sense to use like ‘ignoring’ for a week/month option, and then discussion is not relevant anymore
Let’s agree to disagree 
Because it seems we’re digging into personal nuances of understanding the issue, and it was said enough. And I feel like spamming the topic 
This is sad, and so wrong, but will turn to their own disadvantage.
If they don’t send the cards, it will show, and if they don’t register, it will show too, and they will be blocked from sending cards, but I think only after some time.
But this is what I worry in the blocking as well. If they don’t like someone at all, and block them, they won’t probably register their card or send a card to them, because to them the person as a whole is bad (?).
I tried notifying admins when I received several harrassing messages but they didnt help me
I agree with you. The ignore feature is my favourite feature here and I wish it was even stronger. 
I think it is healthy to walk away from people who are consistently argumentative or inappropriate, especially after you have given them chances and even tried to smooth things over in PMs but they continue on.
Agreed! I think we do broadly agree, it’s just the little details we’re getting stuck on.
Same for me. I reported and never got an answer back from the admins. 
