I personally dislike muting users as it means I can become ignorant of the true environment.
I partially agree with this because I know what you intend. At a certain level of maturity, muting is not necessary because you simply ignore the troll, while remaining informed as to what they write. I am, however, more concerned about Authors protecting their reputation with their followers. This is why I have always pushed for a Block feature; not for me, but rather for my audience. This is especially significant for someone like Megadrive, who would be wise to have the ability to limit his followers from being abused by these contrarian rogues. But this applies to anyone. I would certainly not want those who follow me and leave comments to be rudely offended on my posts.
By the way, Peterson is truly a master at what he does and knows. I always appreciate his insights, and his ability to immediately get to the heart of the matter. And that blue suit is adsolutely divine! 🤣
The tyranny of bullies is that they can also wait for you outside the sanctuary of the school gates.
There is a growing literature on how disgusting many humans are online. This seems to be made worse by the naive openness of many others.
I'm currently reading The Rape of the Mind - the author claims to have coined the term "menticide" - and being so proximate to so many horrors (1956) has some insights often missing from the blindness of distance. The kovid-klimate-kult are menticidal maniacs.
How would that work?
Megadrive has confirmed that the current Mute feature also prevents the muted individual from commenting on your supporter's comments.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@megadrive/rfy9dp
Very close to the Block feature that I had suggested.
A Dual Mute: when I mute you, I no longer see your posts or comments, but also you no longer see my posts or comments. You do not exist for me nor my supporters, and I do not exist for you. Yes, everything appears on the explorer, but at least on the frontend, you can't see nor interfere with my posts.
That part is tricky as it makes a huge assumption about your "supporters" - they need to make that judgment themselves IMO.
What would facilitate more of an enclosure it to separate followers from friends - friends being bidirectional, as on some other sites. THEN can have friends-only posts.
I've changed my opinion about the new Mute feature:
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@famigliacurione/rfzzsh
That raises the question if this scenario is not actually a paradise for the powers in play?
If big players, organizations, government official channels use a similar muting function, then we have a perfect separation between opposing views, don't we?
If everyone who dislikes each other becomes invisible to each other, isn't that exactly what happens that is warned against on a platform like blurt or other so-called free media? But aren't the splits in MSM and their counter-media already the perfect echo chambers?
Who is the lucky third party?
My friend, we are just a small a platform of bloggers. It makes no sense to compare Blurt to these entities.
hmm ... not sure about it. Everything starts small, does it not?
Asking questions and staying critical is not the worst, I think.
You're absolutely correct! Things always start small, and we should always be critical of what deserves to be criticized, but we should also be constructive in our criticism, and not just for the sake of being contrarian. It is very easy to point out problems, but it is more productive to find solutions.
Do you think, I am able to make constructive critiques?
I agree, it's easy to point out what is problematic. My own stance on this topic is not a hard line position. Maybe you have noticed.
To some things there are no solutions though. It's a matter of ongoing processes.
In this case the muted party can still see you, they can decide to mute you if they like.
That's an interesting way to look at! In the past, I would mute someone, and they would continue to comment on my posts and comments, because they did not know they were on mute. With this current approach, however, the party involved knows they have been muted, knows they cannot comment under my posts and can also decide to mute me. After some reflection, I'm convinced that the present upgrades to the Mute feature are better than my idea of a "Block" feature, because this way it is clear to the person who I want to moderate, that they have been muted, and should leave me alone. My compliments; this was a well thought out solution! 💯 Thank you! 🙏
At that point, we're dealing with stalkers; which hopefully it does not get that bad on Blurt. Only an emotionally disturbed individual would spend his/her day on the explorer and alt frontends trying to harass you!
....best line I've seen all day !