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I don't want to see this person's games anymore

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I don’t want to see this person’s games anymore

There’s someone on Furbol you’d rather not see in your lists — maybe they keep hosting games that aren’t your thing, maybe there’s history between you, maybe you’re just trying to keep your home feed clean. What does Furbol let you do about it?

The short version: you can blacklist them. It’s a personal flag on your side — they don’t get told, and you don’t disappear from their side. But what it actually does is less dramatic than the word “blacklist” suggests, so it’s worth knowing before you tap it.

What blacklisting does

Blacklisting is a flag, not a filter. The person stays in your lists — they just get marked so you can skim past them.

  • In search results, nearby player lists, roster views — they appear, but tagged “blacklisted by you.” The app can render them dimmed or pushed down, depending on the screen.
  • If you host a game, a user you’ve blacklisted is excluded from your roster — the same way a host-excluded invitation works. They can’t appear on your players list.
  • The person isn’t notified. Blacklisting is quiet. They find out only if they ask, or if they notice they can’t join your games.

If you expected “blacklist = they vanish entirely,” Furbol doesn’t work that way. The idea is: you decide who to skip, but the network stays intact.

What blacklisting doesn’t do

  • It doesn’t block their games from your feed. Their games still appear in the home list. You just have a tag telling you to skip.
  • It doesn’t stop them from seeing you. Unless they blacklist you too, their view of you is unchanged.
  • It doesn’t stop them from placing you — wait, actually, it does. If you’re blacklisted by a person, they can’t add you to their roster. But if you blacklist them, the placement-prevention goes the same direction: they can’t place you, because a blacklist stops the host from touching your roster slot.

The mirror effect is the subtle part: the relationship only fully breaks both ways if both sides blacklist. One-directional is enough to clean your side and block their placements against you, but they still see you in their lists.

If you also want to stop them placing you in games

If someone keeps placing you as a follower in games you don’t want to be in, there are two levers:

  • Unfollow them. Following is what gives them the right to book you. Unfollowing cuts that permission. See Follower.
  • Blacklist them. As above, this also prevents them from placing you into any of their hosted games.

The two are complementary — unfollowing closes the placement right in general; blacklisting closes it specifically for their hosted games and tags their presence in your lists.

What about venues?

Same pattern, a different target. If there’s a pitch or sport centre you’d rather not play at, you can blacklist the venue — its games get tagged in your lists, and any filters that use “places to skip” respect the flag.

What about a specific game?

Blacklisting a game (not a user, not a venue) acts like a pre-emptive decline of the invitation:

  • If you’ve already been invited to that game, blacklisting it counts as a decline.
  • If you haven’t been invited, the host can’t place you in it after the blacklist.
  • The game stays visible in your lists but is tagged, so you can skim past it.

Reversing it

Blacklists are persistent but not permanent. You can unblacklist a user, a venue, or a game at any time — the flag comes off, they stop being dimmed in your lists, and they can place or invite you again (subject to the usual permissions).