Why? I'm not trying to be inflammatory but there's no flowery way to ask if this is due to some ego thing where you need to make sure you're being listened to and heard by some fuckwit.
If you have something to say, say it. Needing to know if the recipient heard it is silly, especially in online public forums where 99.99% of online discourse isn't a discussion at all and is instead a performance for onlookers. Who cares if they don't hear it and don't respond?
If you mute somebody and they know it then they'll trash you even more knowing that you'll never correct their lies, so it actually encourages worse behavior.
I think you're mistaking muting and blocking. Blocking is what prevents other users from interacting with them. Muting simply stops whoever is muting from seeing it, not everyone else.
So for example, if this were Twitter and you were to respond to me whilst I have you muted, I wouldn't see that response, but others would. If however I had blocked you, you would never even get the opportunity to respond in the first place. For a public space, mute is fine, and eliminates their ability to curate their responses.
How is mute worse? Seems like a great idea to me for when you don't care if someone reads your tweets but don't want to see theirs.
At least I should know if I am muted
Why? I'm not trying to be inflammatory but there's no flowery way to ask if this is due to some ego thing where you need to make sure you're being listened to and heard by some fuckwit.
If you have something to say, say it. Needing to know if the recipient heard it is silly, especially in online public forums where 99.99% of online discourse isn't a discussion at all and is instead a performance for onlookers. Who cares if they don't hear it and don't respond?
If you mute somebody and they know it then they'll trash you even more knowing that you'll never correct their lies, so it actually encourages worse behavior.
Don't worry, the people who use Twitter are absolutely the kind to tell you they muted you.
Fragile People mute thousands of people and so their comment section becomes an echo chamber where people say what they want.
(Nasseem Taleeb)
Anybody new to twitter will not know they have muted thousands and their comment section is completely curated/false
I think you're mistaking muting and blocking. Blocking is what prevents other users from interacting with them. Muting simply stops whoever is muting from seeing it, not everyone else.
So for example, if this were Twitter and you were to respond to me whilst I have you muted, I wouldn't see that response, but others would. If however I had blocked you, you would never even get the opportunity to respond in the first place. For a public space, mute is fine, and eliminates their ability to curate their responses.