Follow and block: how it works
How to follow other members, who may follow you, how to block someone and what a block does and doesn't do.
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When you follow someone, their profile appears in your “Following” list and they get a notification. A block stops new contact in both directions. You control both yourself and can undo either at any time.
Following someone
Sign in and open the person's profile or their creator page.
Choose Follow. You follow them straight away; the other person doesn't need to approve.
To unfollow, choose Unfollow. The person isn't notified.
Following doesn't earn XP or Wanted Tokens. If the button can't be selected, the profile isn't accepting new followers at the moment, or there's a block between you.
Who may follow you
In your privacy settings, under “Who may follow you”, you choose between Everyone (all signed-in members, the default) and Nobody. With “Nobody”, no one can start following you, while existing followers stay.
Follower counts and follower lists are public unless you hide them on your profile or make your profile private. A private profile also doesn't appear in other people's follower lists. In your own lists under “Followers and followed profiles” you can unfollow profiles and block followers. Simply removing a follower isn't possible at the moment.
Blocking someone
You'll find Block on the person's profile, on their comments, in a conversation with them and in your follow lists. Afterwards, the following applies in both directions:
Neither of you can start following the other.
Neither of you can reply to the other's comments. You can't like or comment on the other person's creator content.
You can't send each other direct messages or start a new conversation.
You can't invite each other to a crew.
The blocked person isn't notified. Existing follows, comments and your previous chat history stay as they are. Crew channels aren't affected by a block: if you're in the same crew, you both keep reading and writing there.
Lifting a block
Every profile you've blocked is listed in your privacy settings under “Blocked profiles”. Choose Unblock there. There's no list of who has blocked you. In a conversation you share, however, you both see that a block is in place.
Good to know
A block doesn't replace a report. If someone breaks the community guidelines, report the content as well.
Who may send you messages is set separately from following.
Read more: Report content and users, Messages and crew chat and The community at a glance.