Haters gonna hate. If someone doesn't want to interact with me that's their decision and what good will knowing it do me? Best case scenario I'm going to forget about it in five minutes and worst case scenario I'm going to wonder who it is for a day. If I got mass-ignored I'd sit around and try to figure out why, but probably also conclude that whatever group I'd irritated into mass-ignoring me was not one I'd get along with anyway.

I think it's much more valuable to PM someone if they are acting in a truly reprehensible, intolerable, or out-of-character way on Hubski. Of course the flip side is that I think we are mostly nice people here so no one wants to message anyone they don't know well and be like "Yo cut it out. You're being a douche."

It could be a subtle way of telling users that their behavior is not appreciated here. However, I think that the users we've had in the past who were heavily ignored/muted/hushed were people who either had no interest in or no ability to pick up on subtlety.

I feel like this is the kind of stat that could stir up a lot of behind-the-screen angst and I'm not sure what the benefit is - it seems too subtle of a tool to successfully curb truly loutish behavior.

I don't want to know personally. It's not fear, it's -

honey, you could be the sweetest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still gonna be somebody who doesn't like peaches

(a poor paraphrase of dita von teese)