I feel like this is a narrow approach to the vast array of comment-types you can see. In addition, that's not always possible. It takes two. If I don't like (for example) your comment, and try to call you out on it, and you respond aggressively, even if I've attempted to do so in a friendly manner, clearly we have failed this parameter. Moreover, sometimes an aggressive tone is - well, necessary. This has nothing to do with hush or the hush functionality. Hush only works on comments. - I consider "sharing" to be the action that places a link/article/whatever in my feed. I understand that technically we "share" comments, I guess, but it feels like a different action to me. If someone "shares" a comment I'm still not forced to see it necessarily. Moreover when someone "shares" a comment it does not matter if I follow them or not - as opposed to my feed which I can curate by only following certain people. Revisiting my first comment, I think "hush" will be used, at least for me personally, not because I dislike someone's opinions but because I am not impressed with the quality of their comments. If you make a pun response - not responding to the original content or not in any depth, but just see an opportunity to make a pun, or a song reference, or so on - I'm probably hushing you. It's not worth it to tell that person "Hey I think your comment's quality is subpar and you should step it up" in my opinion, but it is worth it to have that person sorted to the bottom of the thread even if a ton of other people think that shithead's funny, because I know I won't. "Hush," "ignore," and "mute" are not necessarily about dissenting opinions. In my mind they are more about filtering through what could become a giant morass of stupidity.Don't like someone's opinion?
talk about it like civil human beings (i.e. without resorting to name-calling or aggressive tone)
Share the content you think should be shared, and don't share things you don't think should be shared. If something is highly shared but conflicts with your world view
If a user has a habit of doing that, that's when I'll use it. I love reading thoughtful comments that I disagree with, maybe even more than ones I agree with. I'll use hush to target banality.If you make a pun response - not responding to the original content or not in any depth, but just see an opportunity to make a pun, or a song reference, or so on - I'm probably hushing you.