Blacklisting Rules
Blacklisting Rules
Blacklisting is a per-user setting. Each person’s blacklist applies only to their own view and their own hosted games.
What happens when you blacklist a user
- They stay in your lists — search results, player suggestions, invite-tab nearby rings — but are flagged as blacklisted by you, so they show up dimmed or marked and you can skip them at a glance.
- Your hosted games exclude them. If you’re the host, they’re filtered out of your game’s roster the same way a host-excluded invitation would be — they can’t appear on the player list of your games.
- They are not notified. Furbol doesn’t tell them you blacklisted them. The action is private to your side.
What happens when you blacklist a venue
- That sport centre stays in your nearby venues and search results, flagged as blacklisted. It shows up dimmed or pushed down so you can pass over it without thinking about it.
- Games at that venue are similarly tagged — you still see them, you just know at a glance it’s a venue you’ve said no to.
- Blacklisting a venue is a signal to yourself, not a lock — nothing stops you from tapping in if you change your mind.
What happens when you blacklist a game
Blacklisting a specific game works differently from users or venues — it doubles as a pre-emptive decline:
- If you’ve already been invited, blacklisting the game acts as a decline of that invitation.
- If you haven’t been invited yet, blacklisting pre-emptively rules you out — the host can’t place you in the game.
- In your lists, the game is kept visible and flagged blacklisted, so you can skim past the thread and move on.
This is the one case where blacklist has a hard side-effect on the other party: a host can’t put you in a game you’ve actively ruled out.
Reversing it
You can un-blacklist a user or venue at any time from your profile settings. Once removed, things go back to normal — their games reappear in your lists, and if you host, they’re no longer filtered from your roster.
Blacklisting vs. host-exclusion on a single game
Two different tools, related but distinct:
- Blacklisting a user — affects all your hosted games, and hides them from your view everywhere in the app.
- Host-excluding a user on a single game — affects only that one game. Handled through a game invitation marked “not welcome”.
Use blacklisting for a permanent opt-out. Use host-exclusion for a one-game decision.