{"id":85470,"date":"2016-02-09T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85470"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:04:52","slug":"whatsapp-threatens-troublesome-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-threatens-troublesome-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp threatens troublesome users with permanent ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp may suspend the accounts of users who have been<strong> blocked on the app<\/strong> by their numerous users. This basically means that if a particular user gets blocked several times by multiple people, their account may be temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Using this method, the <strong>Facebook-owned company<\/strong> is able to discover the troublesome users and punish them in a way that stops them bothering other users.<\/p>\n<p>This process will not be automatic, and the user in question will receive notice prior to their <strong>suspension<\/strong> to warn them of their misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>If users are being blocked by several other users, they will <strong>receive this warning<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85471\" title=\"WhatsApp-Plus-banned\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/WhatsApp-Plus-banned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/WhatsApp-Plus-banned.jpg 270w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/WhatsApp-Plus-banned-144x256.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not currently know how many warnings the user has to receive in order to be <strong>permanently blocked<\/strong> from using the service, however this is sure to be a strong incentive for users not to <strong>abuse<\/strong> the messenger service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp may suspend the accounts of users who have been blocked on the app by their numerous users. This basically means that if a particular user gets blocked several times by multiple people, their account may be temporarily suspended. Using this method, the Facebook-owned company is able to discover the troublesome users and punish them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-threatens-troublesome-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp threatens troublesome users with permanent ban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":85473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329315,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85470\/revisions\/329315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85470"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85470"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85470"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}