How to Report or Block Users on Stitch

Two different tools for two different problems

Blocking and reporting solve different problems and are not mutually exclusive — you can do either, both, or neither depending on the situation. Blocking is about protecting yourself immediately: it stops a specific person from contacting you further. Reporting is about flagging behavior that may violate Stitch's Community Guidelines so it can be reviewed, independent of whether you also block them.

What blocking actually does

Blocking someone stops them from sending you new messages or starting a new chat with you, and stops your profile updates (photo, last-seen, status) from being visible to them going forward. It is immediate and does not require any explanation or waiting period — you can block directly from their profile or from a chat with them.

Blocking does not delete your existing conversation history by itself, and it does not notify the other person that you specifically blocked them — from their side, your responses simply stop, without an announcement.

How to block someone

1. Open the person's profile, or open your chat with them.
2. Find the Block option and confirm.
3. They can no longer message you or see your profile updates from that point on.

What reporting actually does

Reporting sends information about the account and, where relevant, the specific messages or content to Stitch for review against the Community Guidelines. Unlike blocking, reporting does not itself stop the person from contacting you — if you also want that, block them as well, since the two are independent actions.

Reporting is the right tool for behavior that goes beyond "I personally don't want contact with this person" and into territory that affects others or breaks the platform's rules — harassment, scams, impersonation, or content that violates the guidelines.

How to report someone

1. Open the person's profile or the specific message/content that concerns you.
2. Find the Report option and choose the reason that best matches the behavior.
3. Submit the report — Stitch reviews reports against the Community Guidelines, though for privacy and safety reasons you will not typically see a detailed account of the review's outcome.

Deciding which to use

• Someone you simply do not want to hear from, with no broader guideline violation: block.
• A scam attempt, harassment, or content that breaks the Community Guidelines: report, and block as well if you want the contact stopped immediately.
• A group member causing problems in a shared group: block them directly (this does not require leaving the group), and report if their behavior violates the guidelines.
• If you are unsure whether something is reportable, err toward reporting — a report that turns out not to violate anything is simply reviewed and closed, at no cost to you.

Blocking in a group chat, specifically

A common point of confusion is what happens to a group when you block one of its members. Blocking someone does not remove you from a shared group and does not remove them either — it specifically stops direct messages and profile visibility between the two of you. In the group itself, you will generally still see their group messages, since group conversations are treated differently from direct contact; if the problem is severe enough that you do not want to see their messages even in the group, leaving the group or asking a group admin to remove them are the more complete options.

Unblocking someone

Blocking is not permanent unless you leave it that way — you can unblock someone from the same place you blocked them (their profile, or a blocked-contacts list in your settings) if circumstances change or the block turns out to have been a mistake. Unblocking restores the ability to message each other, but it does not automatically restore a contact relationship if you had also removed them as a contact separately; you may need to reconnect through a new contact request depending on what was undone.

Setting expectations for what a report leads to

It is reasonable to want to know what happens after you report something, but for privacy and safety reasons — both yours and the reported person's — Stitch does not generally publish detailed outcomes of individual reviews. What you can expect is that a report is looked at against the Community Guidelines, and action is taken where the guidelines are actually violated. A report is never wasted even if you never hear a specific result; patterns across multiple reports also help identify accounts that a single report might not have been enough to act on alone.