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...