After approaching the various aspects of the Hive platform (social, finance and governance), we return to the social side to invite you to discover new features introduced recently: decentralized blacklists and mutes lists.
Decentralized Blacklists and Mutes lists are tools that can be useful to protect you from unwanted trolls or spammers or to identify users who are trying to abuse the system.
The concept of decentralized blacklists and mutes lists was introduced by 
Blacklists allow anyone to construct a set of blacklisted users and allow each user to use one or more blacklists created by others.
Blacklisting an account implies the blacklister thinks the account is doing something wrong, and is intended to be used as a way to warn others that he thinks they should be careful when dealing with that account.
With the related steps, we invite you to:
Mutes lists allow anyone to construct a set of users and allow each user to use one or more mute lists created by others.
Muting an account means one doesn’t want to see the account’s posts and comments. Most frontends honor muting by preventing those posts from being displayed when its users view the site.
With the related steps, we invite you to:
These additions were made possible thanks to the new HiveSQL features added recently by 
Therefore, it's not over yet. We should introduce these new steps soontm. So, stay tuned for more fun!
The HiveBuzz Team
