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Banning users in messaging
Posted Feb 03, 2022
We are using Zendesk Messaging with the Agent Workspace and have completely lost the ability to:
1. ban users by email
2. ban users by IP
Our agents are now being subjected to multiple, repeated, abusive messages and there is nothing we can do to stop them. Please re-instate this basic feature for Zendesk Messaging customers.
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35 comments
Ayush Upadhyay
Hi Chris,
Thanks for sharing the feedback. Bringing the ability to ban users on Messaging is on our roadmap but I am unable to share a timeline right now.
Regards,
Ayush
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Dan Savage
Hi @... any word on a timeline? This is the one showstopper from us migrating from Live Chat to Messaging
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Ayush Upadhyay
Hi Dan Savage,
I would assure you that this is still on our radar. We plan to look into in early next year for development. We will publish in the community once we have more concrete dates.
Regards,
Ayush
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Dan Savage
Awesome, thanks Ayush I will keep an eye out :)
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Rudolph
Hi @ayush, @... - Just adding my voice as another customer. Our team will not be moving to Messaging until this functionality is implemented.
Thank you for your hard work!
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Will Yolen
I would also like this feature implemented asap
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CJ Johnson
This is an absolute hard requirement for conversion for us, we must be able to protect agents from 3rd party harassment.
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Nick S
+1 on this. We had this functionality in Chat which was helpful in protecting agents from abusive or inappropriate behaviour. To now have no way to stop these pests feels like a step in the wrong direction in our shift from Chat to Messaging.
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Permanently deleted user
+1 on this too
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Tim Grimshaw
This is becoming more of an issue for us too - really looking forward to any news on getting this functionality back please! 🙏🏻
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Amelia
+1
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Victor Matallana (Corsair)
I made a tutorial on how to ban people https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/5952302901658-How-to-ban-people-in-Messaging
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Yahor Darashkevich
We really need to be able to restrict (ban) end-users in Messaging by IP and/or location.
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Nick S
Does Zendesk have any suggestions for dealing with serial pests on Messaging?
Ability to block via IP (which was available in Zendesk Chat) is a must, we don't want our agents bombarded with spam, abuse and everything in-between.
Latest update was early 2023 for development, is this still on the roadmap?
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Arpan Nagdeve
Hi Nick/Yahor,
Banning users is on our roadmap and it's a top priority for us in 2024. We are in early planning stage and I will have more to share in the coming months on the rollout plans. The workaround suggested and and suspend users capability can be looked for profile based banning option.
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Jonathan Griffin
Eagerly waiting this update. Surprised this wasn't on initial rollout. We are having a large issue dealing with harassing and vulgar customers that we can't get rid of in chat.
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Michael Mulligan
Obviously, suspending requesters (by email address) is still possible, but this does not stop requesters from creating multiple requester profiles by using unique email addresses. We anxiously await the ability to ban via IP address.
Arpan Nagdeve - Will we be notified of implementation of this functionality here?
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Shawna James
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Vaughan
Eagerly awaiting this feature. Any news on where it is at or if it is on a roadmap yet?
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Jahn
Arpan Nagdeve Shawna James - do we have an update with this feature request for messaging? We will really appreciate if we can have this feature like in Live Chat that we can easily ban visitor.
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Amelia
We have had instances where our staff members have received racially abusive messages, and we are not even able to block them. Is there any update on this? It's a key feature that is missing.
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Jakub Raduszewski
Absolutely a needed feature
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KUMU Support
Please add this banning/ filter feature
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Naina Mathur
Dear Community
Thanks for your feedback and upvotes. This feature has been prioritized and is on our 2024 roadmap.Per our Community Guidelines that we do not provide specific timelines around releases for our product and any discussion of planning is always subject to change. To stay on top of product releases please visit our What’s New page in the Help Center. We are going to leave this post open for comment to allow others to provide their feedback and use cases.
Thank you again for your feedback and for being a valuable customer with Zendesk.
Best,
Naina
Zendesk Product Management
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Brandon Martus
+1
We also need the ability to be able to ban abusive users.
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Danielle
+1 We need this ability to ban users in messaging that are being abusive. Thank you!
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Amelia
Naina Mathur Is there any update on this?
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Sophia Petrou
Any update on this feature? Staff have experienced abuse and the ‘customers’ cannot be blocked as they are using different email addresses
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Naina Mathur
Hi there
This feature has been prioritized and slated for release later this year. Please keep an eye out on our Announcements page.
We are going to leave this post open for comment to allow others to provide their feedback and use cases, post launch.
Thank you again for your feedback and for being a valuable customer with Zendesk.
Best Wishes
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Rachel G.
Looking forward to this feature release! Hopefully, it is available soon.
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