garudina

@garudina

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garudina
@garudina

Dear Cohost,

  1. who is this message for? if I have someone silenced, it's because I don't want to see their posts. I could just block everyone whose posts I don't want to see, but I hate doing that for a variety of reasons. please stop telling me about these posts.

  2. as a user of "your website" I am logged into "your website" right now. if I would need to log into something else to receive technical support or suggest features for "your website" I will instead simply Not Do That.

this second is a historical problem with social websites. having a second system for handling technical support/administrative issues/otherwise receiving an audience with the site owners makes it so only a tiny fraction of people will actually engage with that system, which is always the beginning of a long slide down into Hell depending on who actually invests the time and energy to get this access

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garudina
@garudina

is there not a button I can push to "not see the chosts that were made by this user, regardless of who rechosts them"? I'm not all that worried about who comments on stuff

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warc
@warc

from a design perspective it sounds like hell... you'd have threads full of replies and rechosts to nonexistent content. It's probably something they could just give you an option to suppress entirely, but if you don't wanna see your friends replying to blank lines, it's probably either this, or you just miss that thread entirely.

"someone you dont like is at the party, fyi" vs. "youre not invited, since you dont like X"

... and you already said you didn't want to use the block, which is probably the actual solution.

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