{"meta":{"title":"Blocking a user from your personal account","intro":"You can block a user to deny them access to your activity and repositories, and to prevent them from sending you notifications.","product":"Building communities","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/communities","title":"Building communities"},{"href":"/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github","title":"Maintaining safety"},{"href":"/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account","title":"Block from your account"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# Blocking a user from your personal account\n\nYou can block a user to deny them access to your activity and repositories, and to prevent them from sending you notifications.\n\n## About blocking users\n\nYou can block a user in your account settings, from the user's profile, or from content in a repository you own.\n\nWhen you block a user, you can also close any open issues, pull requests, and discussions they have opened in repositories you own. GitHub will not notify the user when you block them. If you want to avoid contributing to the same project as someone you've blocked, you can choose to display a warning on any repositories with prior contributions from a blocked user. For more information, see [Blocking a user in your account settings](#blocking-a-user-in-your-account-settings). You may still see the activity of blocked users in shared spaces and blocked users can delete their existing content.\n\n> \\[!TIP]\n> If you're blocking a user because of a heated conversation, consider locking the conversation so only collaborators can comment. For more information, see [Locking conversations](/en/communities/moderating-comments-and-conversations/locking-conversations).\n\nWhen you block a user:\n\n* The user stops following you\n* The user stops watching and unpins your repositories\n* The user's stars and issue assignments are removed from your repositories\n* The user's votes on discussions or comments in your repositories are deleted\n* The user is removed as a collaborator on your repositories\n* The user's contributions to your repositories are no longer counted as contributions for them\n* Your contributions to the blocked user's repositories are no longer counted as contributions for you\n* You are removed as a collaborator on their repositories\n* Their sponsorship of you is canceled\n* Any pending repository or account successor invitations to or from the blocked user are canceled\n* The user is removed as a collaborator from all the projects owned by you\n* You are removed as a collaborator from all the projects owned by the user\n* The user's comments on repository security advisories are hidden\n\nAfter you've blocked a user, they cannot:\n\n* Send you any notifications, including by [@mentioning](/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#mentioning-people-and-teams) your username\n* Comment on or edit issues or pull requests that you've created\n* React to your comments on issues, pull requests, and commits\n* Follow you or see your content in their activity feed\n* Assign you to issues or pull requests\n* Invite you as a collaborator on their repositories\n* Invite you as a collaborator on a security advisory\n* Cross-reference your repositories in comments\n* Fork, watch, pin, or star your repositories\n* Sponsor you\n* Add you as a collaborator on their projects\n* Make changes to your public projects\n\nIn repositories you own, blocked users also cannot:\n\n* Open issues\n* Send, close, or merge pull requests\n* Comment on issues, pull requests, discussions, or commits\n* Comment on repository security advisories\n* Add or edit wiki pages\n\nBlocking a user from a comment doesn't delete the original issue, pull request, discussion, or security advisory.\n\n## Blocking a user in an issue, pull request, discussion, or repository security advisory\n\nYou must own the repository to block a user from its content.\n\n1. Navigate to the issue, pull request, discussion, or repository security advisory that contains the description or comment whose author you would like to block.\n2. In the upper-right corner of the description or comment whose author you would like to block, click , then click **Block user**.\n3. Optionally, select **Close all open issues, pull requests, and discussions opened by this user**.\n4. Optionally, add a note to describe why you blocked the user. The note will only be visible to you.\n5. To confirm, click **Block user**.\n\n## Blocking a user in your account settings\n\n1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Settings**.\n2. In the \"Access\" section of the sidebar, select ** Moderation** then click **Blocked users**.\n3. Under \"Block a user\", search for the user by username, full name, or email address, then select the user and click **Block user**.\n4. Optionally, to add a note to describe why a user was blocked, click **Add Note**. The note will only be visible to you.\n5. Optionally, you can display a warning when you visit a repository where a blocked user is a contributor. Under \"Blocked users\", select **Warn me when a blocked user is a prior contributor to a repository**.\n\n## Blocking a user from their profile page\n\n1. Visit the user's profile page.\n2. In the left sidebar, below the user's profile information, click **Block or Report**.\n\n \n3. Optionally, select **Close all issues, pull requests, and discussions opened by this user**.\n4. Optionally, add a note to describe why a user was blocked. The note will only be visible to you.\n5. Click **Block user**.\n\n> \\[!NOTE]\n> If you're being harassed, visit [GitHub Support](https://support.github.com) to report abuse. GitHub does not tolerate abuse. For more information on GitHub's policies, see our [Terms of Service](/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service) and [Community Guidelines](/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-community-guidelines).\n\n## Further reading\n\n* [Viewing users you've blocked from your personal account](/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/viewing-users-youve-blocked-from-your-personal-account)\n* [Unblocking a user from your personal account](/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/unblocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account)\n* [Blocking a user from your organization](/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-organization)\n* [Unblocking a user from your organization](/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/unblocking-a-user-from-your-organization)\n* [Reporting abuse or spam](/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/reporting-abuse-or-spam)\n* [Limiting interactions in your repository](/en/communities/moderating-comments-and-conversations/limiting-interactions-in-your-repository)"}