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khjuu · 3193 days ago · link · · parent · post: Do you use the mute function for ideological reasons? Other reasons beyond avoiding hostility? As a downvote button? Future impact?
It's totally ideological for me. I came here from Reddit mostly to get away from racism, sexism, etc. I don't care if I sound like the person on the left and and the person I'm muting sounds like the guy on the right: I'm muting you if I disagree with you strongly enough. I find, though, that there's a pretty large overlap between jerks and sincere racists. And there's a pretty low overlap between posting racist content and posting interesting content. When I mute someone purely because I don't like their views, I generally find that I'm not missing much and I'm glad I did it for other reasons, too.