by beezneez

A thread popped up in my feed about not being allowed to post in a certain thread because the user was muted. I'm interested in who you've muted - and why. Personally I've used it against spam accounts and I can't imagine weaponizing it.

It allows people to 'win' arguments by replying to the person and then muting them so they cannot reply back (and I cannot think of a specific time where someone didn't reply to me and then mute). If the person wants to ignore someone, that's completely fair, but the downside should be the person being muted having the ability to make their last point. Fair is fair, and just because someone doesn't want to have any interactions with the other person doesn't mean the other person doesn't have anything useful to say, or that others wouldn't find it useful as well.

By mreiland

As a public disclosure, I've both hushed and muted @biltony@ and MrBo for spamming and shitposting, respectively (sorry to MrBo if he wants to come back) - but that's it. Shouldn't users be less quick to mute than to hush? Maybe it should require two-factor authentication to prevent hasty generalizations on another's character.

Interested parties: mkr, kleinbl00, mreiland, ButterflyEffect, YetAnotherAccount (who ARE/WERE you?), thenewgreen and b_b? I'd like to hear your response.

Edit: adding _refugee_ and minimum_wage to the tag list

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