Worthy of note: I created mass outrage by suggesting the ability to personally ignore new users for a few days without impacting their ability to post one iota. I further stated that Hubski should emphasize personal content curation and eschew top-down moderation and editorial control. Your response is to automatically enforce a site-wide mute for all new users, the thing I turned blue in the face telling Tidders I wasn't asking for. What you're effectively advocating is that very "notion" that "upsets people" and "gives you pause." What I asked for was a whole lot less than you suggest, but people got all torch'n'pitchforky because they thought I was asking for what you suggest. But you're hesitant to go with my solution because people got mad mistaking it for what you suggest. Food for thought.