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comment by ButterflyEffect

    I'm curious if the inverse of muting, whitelisting users, might be an interesting solution. That might be too drastic, but it's worth some thought.

That is an interesting idea. Maybe autofill a users whitelist with the people that they follow, and allow them to add names from there. Then, if a person submits a comment that isn't white-listed it would have to get approved by the submitter. The benefit is that the user has full control over the comments being posted, and thus the quality of those comments. Hopefully. The downside, as with muting is the potential for abuse of this feature and the rejection of valid posts due to ideological differences or just not liking a user.





user-inactivated  ·  3837 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like this idea, but take a look at my web of trust solution above. I'll add the fact that your comment here helped push me into thinking along those lines, so thanks :)