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mk  ·  1307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wait, are we doing it wrong? [Potential major Hubski experiment]

Muting would be gone. I don’t mute people, but people here do, and get angry at each other about it.

I have the sense that people aren’t fully understanding how this will all work. You will be able to take a break from talking with users, it won’t be by blocking their replies, however.





kleinbl00  ·  1307 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Let's be clear, then: what you're trying to do is prevent people from getting mad at each other.

During a pandemic.

Under the most controversial president we've ever had.

While there's a recession on.

And 58 million people are unemployed.

I know you hate muting but look: you can't have a conversation on the Internet without some sort of moderation. Heavy, light, top-down, bottom-up, whatever: this functionality is required even on the chans.

And I know you think what you're doing isn't muting, but it's worse: it's giving everyone earplugs and requiring them to opt into hearing literally everyone.

You can't attempt to "solve" muting if it's not even a feature you use. The fact that you can ban spammers and the rest of us can't means that your experience does not match that of any other user.