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thenewgreen  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who(m) have you muted?

    I've both hushed and muted @biltony@ and MrBo for spamming and shitposting, respectively (sorry to MrBo if he wants to come back) - but that's it.
-One mans shit-post is another mans treasure. Thing is, what is offensive to me may be totally fine to you. If I mute someone, they can no longer comment on my posts. It's simple, and guess what... it works. People are upset because it works. I think there is something to be said for someone not being able to mute someone mid-conversation or without someone getting the chance to make a last comment, but once you are muted, you should no longer be able to comment on my posts. Period.

Each persons metric for what does and doesn't constitute "muting" someone will be different. For me, it's for spammers, people that have been overtly offensive (i.e. racist, sexist etc) that I don't want in my posts.

For the record, I have 29 users muted and I guarantee you've never heard of them nor would they even know they're muted.

I made some points in this post today that you can read. There were some suggestions from people in that thread as to how to better implement a mute function. I'm tired and am clocking out.