What are some advantages that the filter and hush systems don't have but the mute and block do?
Have you considered clicking on the tags that you're using, and reading some of the years worth of discussions, suggestions, arguments, etc. that would answer your question? Here, I'll make it even easier for you: https://hubski.com/tag/muted?time=all https://hubski.com/tag/mute?time=all https://hubski.com/tag/rustledjimmies?time=all Hey wait a second, I see the problem here. And it isn't muting.
A person whom you know that you don't want to hear from can't bother you? Isn't that enough? I have only one person who is not a spammer in my muted/blocked list. Sorry for going into details, but I do find it as a relevant background. I've had enough of one That Fretful Guy doing his passive-aggressive remarks at me while being convinced that his comments, both here and on IRC, don't get me anything of value nor person seems worthy of discussion. He continues this and will likely get blocked by more people who don't want to put-up with him and his humours. If not for block and one of the few situations in my entire life where I have lashed out with strength that I would classify as 'intent to maim and/or kill' I would be getting more and more annoying comments regarding every single opinion, credit or action as either showing-off, or hypocritically being called self-centred. Or criticised just because it's me and not a person with whom he does not have an axe to grind. I have no doubt about it, there's more salt than in Dead Sea. If someone has a beef with you while you don't even consider them as worthy of giving them the benefit of doubt, why not just show them the door? That's what I would do with someone in real life if they would act like a stereotypical Jewish wife about everything. Plus I would demand such person to hand over their last remaining man card. That's how block/mute works in my opinion. I don't want to accidentally read what some random and persistent troll will blather at me after some point, despite not being given a notification or having to scroll down all the way in responses (does not work if that's the only response, for example). Plus let's be honest, notifications fuck-up fairly regularly. I have nothing but love and respect to Hubski devs, but that happens so often that I don't even bother with reporting it. There have been posts where I was given a shout-out that I could only discover after going back to some thread. There are responses to my posts that I didn't knew about until two weeks afterwards. Just as there are situations where I'm getting an orange hubwheel and can't seem to find anything new. Going back to threads is a necessity, so filter/hush will not be a viable way to deal with such cases until notification will work at 100% success rate. Maybe it works for some of you, I'm not that lucky. I know that I am not easy to deal with myself, I'll probably get blocked by some of you who read this post for a reason that I don't understand, but if that's what you want… you have the option to block my input. I'm not American and don't have some weird ideas about what constitutes freedom of speech, but imo Hubski's solution is as perfect as it could get.
Good point, I didn't know that filter only crosses peoples' names out (I thought it made their posts invisible to the user like other sites). mk, can we please have that feature?A person whom you know that you don't want to hear from can't bother you? Isn't that enough?
If someone irritates me in real life, am I expected to invite that person along every time I go out with my friends? The answer is no, I don't, and depending on why I exclude that person affects others' perception of me. If I exclude that person because of their political beliefs, then most others will perceive me negatively and exclude me from their social gatherings. I would become socially isolated. If I exclude that person because they're rude to everyone, then others won't care that I exclude that person from my social circle because they're excluding that person as well. This is basic human interaction. Mute is no different. Someone has decided that they don't like you and don't want you participating in their social gatherings. It's no different than not being invited to a party. Kleinbl00 is in no way excluding you from participating on Hubski, nor is he preventing you from expressing your political/religious/social beliefs. But he has decided that you aren't invited to his discussions. Mute isn't evil, it just makes Hubski similar to real life.
I see forums as debating clubs more than social gatherings. What makes you so sure that will happen?If I exclude that person because of their political beliefs, then most others will perceive me negatively and exclude me from their social gatherings. I would become socially isolated. If I exclude that person because they're rude to everyone, then others won't care that I exclude that person from my social circle because they're excluding that person as well. This is basic human interaction.