Prediction: This thread will blow up, there will be a few people very outspoken on both sides of the discussion, users who are against it will threaten to leave if it happens, some of those users actually will (and some of us will say, "Thank god!"), and is going to spawn like, three discussion threads about people who just totally do not agree with the given direction of the thread but, for some reason, have to make their own post about it - probably because their disagreement is just so large it must be acknowledged within its own post. Other posts will respond to these spawn-off posts. kleinbl00 will have some kind of earth-shattering opinion one way or another and people will get enchantingly oh-so-vocal about it. And, sorry mk, but it is highly unlikely that this will be implemented. Because of the Drams. That being said, I think we should run it like an experiment and see, as OftenBen suggested. That-being-said-that-being-said, soo many people are going to be endearingly against this idea because they will be convinced that if we give this a try, "We'll just never change it back!" and so on.
And, sorry mk, but it is highly unlikely that this will be implemented. Because of the Drams.
-See the history of tags and then rethink that sentence.
:) In all honesty, my willingness to rock the boat has more to do with the depths of my conviction and interest than it does with the volume of dram. Tags remain something that I want to get right (I think that two tags and a community tag was our best implementation so far). As far as muting, I almost never use it, and I almost never desire to do so. I had little choice but to listen to the community on that one. Unfortunately, people were much more invested in the outcome than I. As for this one, I am definitely willing to rock the boat. A home for thoughtful discussion is the goal, and I do think that a wide open door works against that in real ways.
Now that they've died down, check your settings. Currently set at 48 hours. forwardslash is going to love me for adding a setting at the 11th hour, so I can't guarantee that it will make the leap. It might have to be added once again.
It just says filter newbies. It gives no indication as to how long someone on the site is considered a newbie. What are the qualifications?
For clarity: I never suggested muting. I suggested being able to IGNORE users with fewer than x days on the site. However, the drama llamas hadn't yet figured out that muting was possible on Hubski so that is what they latched onto, and since they couldn't figure out the difference between muting and ignoring, they decided they'd rather feel indignant about something nobody asked for than that thing that totally wouldn't have changed their experience at all.
Nothing changed re muting, because it wasn't broken to begin with. imho. thenewgreen tip-toes away from the topic ever so slowly as to not divert the subject at hand...