Except that's not the case. It's more along the lines of "people's desire to have a conversation with anyone based around what someone who didn't want to talk to them said". Peoples burning desire to talk to someone who doesn't want to talk to them mystifies me.
What is the difference between ignore and mute, in that case? Personally, I wish it was hush / ignore comments / ignore posts, and no mute "feature" at all.
Agreed. I quite like the idea of being able to ignore/hush users for yourself. But being able to censor other people is taking things too far, personally. It's too open to abuse. For example: posting a scathing reply to someone and then immediately muting them. And it doesn't even work at its intended purpose - indeed it cannot work for its intended purpose. Because someone can always create a throwaway account and post the response.
Well, not quite self-promotion as of yet, because I'm still working on it, but here goes. I am trying to introduce myself to integer linear programming by making a Nonogram solver using Python and puLP. I've gotten it to solve 25x25 puzzles, now I just need to tidy it up and optimize it a "little" (for one thing, it currently takes a couple minutes just to generate the constraints on larger puzzles).