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Kick or ban someone from your community
jorge-campo
jorge-campo
and
Fabiomorais87
on May 15, 2025

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Community Owners and TokenMasters can kick out or ban members who violate the community guidelines or behave in a toxic manner.

In the case of minor offences or annoyances, consider kicking the offender. For major violations of the community guidelines or repeated offences, you can use the ban option.

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Banning or kicking a user on your Status contact list doesn't remove the contact. If you want to remove the user from your contact list, remove the contact or block the user.

The difference between a kick and a ban in Status Communities is that a kick is temporary, while a ban remains unless you unban the user.

When you kick a user from a community, they can request to join it again. When you ban the user, they can't search or see the community again, and can't request to join either. Community owners and TokenMasters can reverse the ban by inviting the user to the community again.

  • A user who has been kicked out of a community can ask to join the community again.
  • A user who has been banned can't see or search for the community. A banned user can only rejoin the community when you unban them and they request to join again.
  • Only community Owners can kick or ban TokenMasters.
  • Members receive a notification when they are kicked out but not when they are banned.
  • Users can see they have been kicked out or banned when they try to reaccess the community.
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The community disappears from the user's navigation sidebar when they are kicked or banned.

  1. 1
    From the navigation sidebar, click your community.
  2. 2
    At the top of the channel sidebar, click your community logo.
  3. 3
    Click
    Members
     to show all the community users.
  4. 4
    Hover over the user and select
    Kick
     or
    Ban
    , depending on the action you wish to perform.
  5. 5
    Click
    Kick
     or
    Ban
     again to confirm your action.
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If you kick or ban a member while the control node is offline, the action cannot be processed until the node is back online. The
Kick
 or
Ban
 option is disabled during this time, showing that the action is pending.

In Status Communities, a user becomes a TokenMaster by owning the TokenMaster token.

As a community Owner, you can kick or ban a TokenMaster from your community by destructing their TokenMaster remotely. For more information, see Destroy the TokenMaster token remotely.

  1. 1
    From the navigation sidebar, click your community.
  2. 2
    At the top of the channel sidebar, click your community logo.
  3. 3
    Click
    Members
    .
  4. 4
    Click the
    Banned
     tab to show all the banned users.
  5. 5
    Hover over the user and select
    Unban
    .
  6. 6
    Ask the user to join or request to join the community again.
tip
The user receives a notification of your unban action.
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jorge-campoon May 15, 2025
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