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

As someone who found this site earlier today, and read through the mentioned post's comments and this one, I wonder...

Isn't this a bit childish? Openly name shaming and pretty much baiting users into fights. (Mostly this thread)

I understand starting a discussion around a feature you (and most other community members) consider to be broken/bad, although this thread in particular is nothing but baiting.

Wouldn't we be better off without this attitude?





veen  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·  

First, welcome here! I agree with you that this thread is taken too personally by some people which leads to baiting. It's understandable: being muted can feel like a personal attack, even though it is nothing more than one person making it slightly harder to reach him/her. Hubski is about self-moderating, so if you think a person here is someone you wouldn't want to talk to or want to see less of, you can hush, filter or mute them by going to their profile.

If you have any questions about how the site works, feel free to ask!

Here are all the posts in my feed that are shared more than 20 times. I suggest you read those (and/or change the number in the url to a higher one) to find the posts that better represent what hubski is about than this one.

Also, is there any particular reason you have 18 W's in your name?

user-inactivated  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a problem that many people are characterizing the issues myself and others have with the mute feature in this way.

I defend anyone's right to prevent me from communicating with them. The issue is the way muting works currently, it also prevents me from being involved in a discussion with others when they mute me.

Fix that single aspect, and most of my issues with this site magically disappear.

kleinbl00  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hereby name him "hedge."

havires  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sure if you look through my post history, mostly everything in (I think its this thread) I'm going to get muted/unfollowed a lot. You picked a helluva post to jump on. I think I'll go ahead and say it - Welcome to Hubski. (Funny I have no reason to welcome you since I've been here for ~30 days)

user-inactivated  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem is that this attitude is the normal response to the problem that needs to be fixed. There isn't really a way that this conversation is going to happen without first demonstrating the problem as many people in this thread are. It's messy, but it's what has to happen.

This is a pretty big problem, and hopefully the fact that it's all over the place shows how badly it needs to be adjusted.