.....oh, I noticed your comments on zerohedge a while back (I am presuming it is the same 'drutter'?)
Imagine if we could create a blurt to be anything like....
Obviously with the new censorship rules on the front end of blurtblog (the main front end at the moment), it's impossible - not even zerohedge mutes mute you so that NO ONE ELSE can see even see your comments on a thread )underneath an account that's muted you).
Growth = engagement - yet the Orwellian censorship rules allows anyone to mute you - and then 'disappear' all of your comments on that thread....
Sounds like a really good plan to encourage more interactions, and growth, doesn't it?... sarc.
I wonder what the thought process was that went into that decision ?
....'I know, it'll be really great idea to make a tool to disappear any comments that the account user who posted, doesn't like ...yeah that should increase engagement and make the platform look like a ghost town, instead of busy'
....The mind boggles...
Yeah, I'm the only person who goes by drutter, although some guy tried to call his weird golf putting invention a "drutter" several years ago. (It didn't catch on.)
I still have not experienced the new "muting" on the blogblog front end. But from what I've heard, "muting" is not the right word for it. It's more like the shadowbanning we see on other sites, where the user in question can comment, but the comment isn't seen by others. Let's call it what it is, eh? Bless their hearts for trying to sugarcoat it by calling it something more benign.
I think the "thought process" going into things around here is mostly based on emotions like greed, anger, and guilt. The "leadership" here is the reason we can't grow and succeed. I have documented that nicely.
And I uncovered quite a bit more circle-jerking, farming, vote-buying, abuse of pre-mined stake, and other forms of corruption and cronyism while I was researching this post. It goes deep, and it all stems from the very top. Anyone not in the club, and especially those who uncover and speak about it, are shut out tightly. The golden goose is being strangled to death but it's their only tactic.