Welcome to Hubski. Since we work hard to be more polite here than the usual sewage farm of commentary, I will inform you why I've added you to my mute ignore list even though you have no idea who I am. Please note that none of these have to do with your political leanings, but with your approach:

1) You are screaming. When you type in ALL CAPS and reel off a list of slogans (that almost look like they came from a mutant Burma-Shave campaign), you build a wall. You are not interested in discussion: you are lecturing.

2) You are not finishing your thoughts. You present an assumption and fail to back it up.

3) You are impolite. I have enough inelegant signal in my world.

I come here to lower my blood pressure and find interesting things to read. Thus I shall mute you. I will know that you replied and expect to skip the entire thread.

Why you should care: you will soon find no one replying to you. We're a small enough place that you'll find yourself shunned. You can leave, but that won't teach you anything. We're here to learn, so I hope you'll learn not to spew first.

For now, good day.

Update: I can be such a newb. I don't want to prevent you from commenting, which is what mute does -- I support your right to speak. I switched you to the ignore list. I just want a warning that I may not want to hear it.

By the way, does anyone know how to strike out a word rather than block it?