So. I stumbled on the post asking for experimental, somewhat creepy games. I went to post, but there were no comment buttons anywhere - all I saw was "You are muted here". I checked all three tags individually - AskHubski, Gaming and Experimental, and I was not muted in any of these individual tags.
What could cause that? Is it the person that posted, in question, that had elected to mute me? Is it a bug?
Oh okay. I hope not, because looking at their post history, I don't think we've ever really talked - there's only two places they could have noticed me, and from either of them they probably either think I'm fucked in the head or an arguing prick.
If a user muted you, and that upsets you, ask him why! You can still PM him until he blocks you, which would be hilarious but sad:(
Eh, I got a rough idea and if it's for the reasons I think, I'm not sure I want to be unblocked. Still going to ask, for clarification, but I don't worry too much about it anymore.
Muting gets used way too damn much to silence critics and increase the echo in your own personal chamber as opposed to its intended purpose of killing off trolls. Don't take it personally. Some people are just easily offended even if it's by rational discussion.
Alright. Feels a little against the spirit of Hubski, but who am I to say that...
Sounds like it. Doesn't make much sense as we never, as far as I can tell, talked to one another, and if they decided to block me based on one of my comments that's rather disappointing, and I hoped I wouldn't see that sort of self-isolation here.
I ended up muting someone I never replied to after I watched them trying to hijack someone else's post with a misogynist agenda. I clicked their user name and saw all sorts of racist and misogynistic stuff I don't want hijacking threads I post, so instead of noping the fuck out of hubski, I muted them.
Yeah. I'm not too happy that someone sees me in this light (I feel like I've been really offensive for this to happen), but oh well.
Once on Hubski someone told me that my dad should've pulled out. It's actually like, the most hliarious insult anyone's ever given me, and I cherish it a little bit. But that aside, an insult's an insult and saying something like "The best part of you slimed down your mother's leg" is a pretty serious one. There is always going to be someone, at least one someone, who does not get along with you. It won't matter how much you try to get along (or not). You could be the most reasonable individual it's possible to be about it, and some people still won't like you. It feels personal, but it isn't. There's going to be a person like that for you everywhere, a person who, for whatever reason, thinks that you're their villain. Even on awesome community-based places like Hubski. The best advice I can give you is know that someone will hate you everywhere, and learn not to care about it. It is hard and not always easy, but worth it.
Don't take it too personally. I've seen it here and there too. At first I was pissed but Hubski is all ends of the spectrum. You can't please everybody.
Yeah I know, it just makes me feel really offensive.
That does make me feel better, because I'm pretty sure I found the argument in question and it IS a subject that a particular subset of people do tend to isolate themselves with (think the sort of argument you would NOT find on most of Tumblr)