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kleinbl00  ·  3790 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who(m) have you muted?

So many wrong ideas about muting around here.

Know who you should mute?

The people that are going to drag you into pointless fights about nothing.

Know who I have muted?

The people who have demonstrated desire to drag me into pointless fights about nothing.

Let's be clear: I have a 9th dan black belt in Internet Dickishness. I stopped counting the number of people I caused to straight-up delete their Reddit accounts. You can win fights so decisively that the other party QQs in shame. I even got good at the "thermonuclear downvote" - here's what a comment chain that delivers -400 Internet Points looks like.

But let's be clear: these sorts of things are bad for the community.

I'm a big fan of muting. The reason is simple. It keeps me from engaging in unrestricted warfare in a demilitarized zone.

There are arguments worth winning and there are arguments worth ignoring and there are people who are primarily interested in talking to you so they can get a rise out of you. And while the zen monk approach is "wax on, wax off" I am not a zen monk.

"Mute" allows me to leave the sword in the scabbard. And that is to everyone's advantage.





beezneez  ·  3790 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It might make sense that you have nearly 1K followers on this site. As for myself I've less than fifty. In my case I think I've kept to the shadows enough to not encourage active flaming. And that's definitely one thing I like about hubski: Free expression without notoriety.

    There are arguments worth winning and there are arguments worth ignoring and there are people who are primarily interested in talking to you so they can get a rise out of you. And while the zen monk approach is "wax on, wax off" I am not a zen monk.

Understood! and myself and most of the community respects you for it.

kleinbl00  ·  3790 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So - you have 50 followers. You've muted two people. Let's invent a new thing - we'll call it "mute ratio." In your case, that'd be 25:1.

I have 950 followers. If I muted the equivalent number of people as you, I'd have 38 people muted. As it turns out, I have 33.

yet I shall always be the dick in this discussion.