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comment by blackbootz
blackbootz  ·  3562 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "You are muted here. Have you tried apologizing?"

I feel that de-anonymizing or humanizing the usernames on any forum would naturally increase the level of civility, I'm all for it!

Question: on this hypothetical "You've been muted, have you tried apologizing?" page that greets a muted user, is the list of common followers displayed so that the muted user can then use ask of those common followers to relay a communication?





kleinbl00  ·  3562 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would be the idea, yes. I'm rushing to get this out so I can go to dinner, but the object would be to communicate to the mutee that there are "friends in common" that could speak on your behalf.

Unless, of course, you don't have any friends in common at which point you might want to ask yourself why it's so important to comment on the muter's posts.

havires  ·  3561 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well if you start having to sign in with Facebook here, I'll vanish as quickly as I was ever here. So no, I don't support this at all. (Your point about humanizing forums like this.)