Discord started in 2022 equally a useful tool for the gaming community to make chatrooms online and filled the void of a VoIP service left out by many popular multiplayer games. Still, over the past two years, Discord has grown to adapt a wider range of consumers and has over 150 million monthly active users who created over 19 million active servers.

As the community grows, so does the disconcert, and Discord is no stranger to that fact. Keeping that in listen, Discord offers a way to block others on the platform; notwithstanding, the feature has garnered a lot of criticism for assuasive those blocked to admission the other person's profile.

Here we've discussed what exactly happens when you block someone on Discord and the additional safe measures to ensure that a person who isn't on your friend'due south listing and is blocked by you has minimal admission to your profile, if at all.

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What does blocking someone on Discord practice?

When you lot cake someone on Discord, they won't exist able to see your Online Condition. They'll still exist able to see your past messages and message you. But yous won't receive the bulletin body, simply a notification indicating the number of messages you've received from the person y'all blocked — X Blocked Messages.

If you want to, you can also bring Discord'south attention to a harasser or bully by reporting them. Check out our guide to report a user, server or DM on Discord.

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Tips for a safer Discord experience

Members of a Discord server can DM each other freely. So, if you want to block DMs from people who aren't your friends on a server, become to the privacy settings and disable the Allow direct letters from server members choice.

You tin too use Discord's Condom Direct Messaging feature via the Privacy & Condom settings. Choose one of the post-obit options to filter your message before they land in your inbox. This ensures y'all don't receive whatever explicit media from anyone, including your friends.

  • Proceed me safe: Discord volition scan all images sent in all of your DMs, including those from your friends and server members. Whatsoever explicit media volition be blocked.
  • My friends are nice: Discord will scan images sent by people who aren't in your friends list.
  • Exercise no browse: Discord won't browse whatsoever images in your DMs.

Lastly, you could also limit who tin send you lot a friend asking in Discord via Settings. If you don't desire random strangers to be sending you friend requests, then disable the Everyone toggle. Same goes for Friends of Friends and Server Members.

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