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user-inactivated  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who(m) have you muted?

That's part of the reason why I'm arguing that the mute functionality as is actively hurts actual discourse on this site.

There are always going to be those who get offended when you challenge them in that manner. Because they have the power to force you out of the conversation, you cannot challenge ideas on this site unless the person you're challenging simply has a bit of fairness to them.





havires  ·  3539 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm muted by like 3 or 4 people now and my inbox was positively walls of text everywhere. It was quite amusing.

user-inactivated  ·  3539 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah, it's completely uncalled for, I would love to know why the feature was added in the first place.

havires  ·  3539 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well it's to combat spammers and silence things like ahametals or whatever the handle is. At least that's what all of my reading in this "two day long flame war" has shown it to be.