On Substack, you can ban and unban someone from commenting on your publication. Simply go to their comment, click on the three dots underneath and select “ban.” You can also choose how long you want to ban someone: an hour, 24-hours, a week, a month, or indefinitely.  You can also ban lists of users from commenting or subscribing via your Dashboard settings. The Substack Help Center can walk you through how to do this with ease. You can also revoke someone’s subscription and delete them from your subscriber list via Dashboard > Subscribers. Search for the subscriber>revoke subscriber status.  As for Patreon, you can block a patron via your patron’s profile or from your Patron Manager dashboard. In addition, Patreon has a whole section in its Help Center about patrons who are either suspicious or spamming your posts. In contrast to Substack, Patreon is pretty clear that the platform should be a safe space for creators to share their work and has a dedicated page on what support it offers if someone is bullied. At the time of writing, we could not find any reference to “abuse” or “bullying” in the Substack Help Center.