Two buttons, two different jobs. Here's exactly what each one does, so you can pick the right one without guessing.
Block: for you
Block is for when you don't want someone in your life on POINT. You don't need a reason and nobody reviews it.
What it does, immediately:
- Your Space, posts, comments and photos disappear for them, and theirs for you.
- Any friendship and pending requests between you are removed, and you're taken out of each other's Top Friends.
- Posts from either of you stop appearing in the other's feed, even where a follow existed.
- Neither of you can message the other or start a new conversation.
- Neither of you appears in the other's search results, suggestions, or Top Friends.
- In groups you both belong to, you'll still each see the group, but not each other's posts.
What it doesn't do: it doesn't notify them, and it doesn't tell us anything. Blocking is private and yours. You can unblock any time from Settings.
Where to find it: on their Space, under the Report link, or in Settings under Blocked people.
Report: for the rules
Report is for content or behavior that breaks the Community Guidelines: impersonation, harassment, hate, threats, sexual content involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, illegal goods, spam, scraping, account attacks.
Where: every post, comment, message, Space, business page, group and event has a Report button. Pick the reason, add a note if it helps, send.
What happens next:
- The content is snapshotted the moment you report, so it can't be edited away.
- It goes into a queue read by a person on the team, normally within a day. Serious categories, threats, minors, intimate imagery, go to the top and trigger an immediate alert.
- The reviewer dismisses, warns, removes, or suspends, and the member involved gets an email naming the content and the rule.
- You aren't told the outcome by default, so that reporting stays private and nobody feels judged for a report that didn't lead to action.
What it doesn't do: reporting doesn't block. If you also don't want to see the person, block them as well. Reporting many times doesn't speed anything up beyond the first report; it's already at the front.
Which one, when
| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| An ex, a relative, someone you'd rather not see | Block |
| Someone being rude but within the rules | Block |
| Someone pretending to be you or a business | Report, then block if you like |
| Threats, harassment that continues after a block | Report |
| Spam, scams, link farms | Report |
| Content involving minors or intimate images without consent | Report immediately |
A note on fairness
Blocks are never used against the person blocked. A member who gets blocked a lot isn't scored for it, flagged for it, or treated differently. Blocks are a privacy tool, not evidence. Only reports, read by a person, lead to enforcement, and only with a reason you'd be told if it were you.