# Banned Posters become Un-Ignored **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [November 19, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters-become-un-ignored/925933 "2020-11-19T00:53:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters-become-un-ignored/925933/1 "2020-11-19T00:53:18Z")
I have put some posters on my ignore list who were later banned. Their names are no longer on my ignore list and their posts are now showing up in threads where they participated. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to re-ignore them. Is there any way to ignore someone who was banned and to continue to hide their posts? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters-become-un-ignored/925933/2 "2020-11-19T04:55:11Z")
I just tried putting a banned person on my ignore list, and it seemed to work. I think there are a couple of different ways to ignore a person. I did it by going to that person’s profile and clicking on a link in the upper right corner that says “Normal” (or “Muted”, or" Ignore"). I changed it from Normal to Ignore. I then went to my own profile, looked under Preferences/Users and saw that it took. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters-become-un-ignored/925933/3 "2020-11-19T17:17:02Z")
Could this issue be related to the following? > [@Ignored users visible when new posts are loaded in an already-opened thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignored-users-visible-when-new-posts-are-loaded-in-an-already-opened-thread/924906): > > Very busy week in the various Elections threads of course… Often I’ll open a thread, and, as I read the old ones (which for a lot of these huge threads with lots of new posts can take awhile) it will accumulate new posts. But now I’ve noticed when I get to these posts which arrive after I’ve opened the thread, I can see the posts of people I have on my ignore list. Anyone else noticed this? ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banned-posters-become-un-ignored/925933/4 "2021-01-21T02:34:06Z")
There was a bug around this that we fixed ~2 months ago, so if people mysteriously became un-ignored, that was our bug, apologies.