You can block a user, or you can be blocked. Both have the same effect.
Blocking a user will:
- Prevent them from sending you whispers
- Prevent them from hosting you
- Prevent them from adding you as a friend
- Prevent them from purchasing gift subs for other users in your channel
- Filter their messages out of chats you don’t moderate
The other day I was enjoying watching a nice streamer and chatting with friends in their stream when I noticed that there was a lot of chat showing on the screen (because of the Stream Elements plugin) that I was not seeing in Twitch chat. In that moment, I realized that the only explanation was that the person had blocked me (or that I had blocked them). I confirmed by checking my list of blocked people and seeing that they were not in the list. The only remaining conclusion is that they chose to ban me.
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