It allows people to 'win' arguments by replying to the person and then muting them so they cannot reply back

This is a valid point, it's something we should consider.

There will be those on this site who will claim otherwise, but nothing I've seen here has really been any more meaningful than the sorts of discussions I find on reddit (and in many ways, much less meaningful).

-Hubski is not Reddit. We do not want to be Reddit. Reddit is Reddit and they're damn good at being Reddit. I have a high opinion of what Reddit has accomplished. I very much enjoy their AMA's and other aspects of the site and there are certainly places where great conversations occur, all the time.

The 'old timers' have more power on this site by design for that very reason

-A good idea is a good idea and much of the functionality of Hubski has come from new users making suggestions. Old user/New User it's a pretty level playing field.

the last 'influx of redditors' was met with a suggestion to be able to auto-ignore every account that was less than X days old, and it was seriously considered by the admins (I have no idea if they went forward with it or not).

-We have not implemented this. That said, the idea has ZERO to do with reddit and everything to do with new users having the same questions about the site each time we have an influx. By the way, the largest influx we've had wasn't from reddit, I believe it was a Hacker News post or perhaps an article from the Daily Dot. Either way, the questions are relatively the same regardless of where the people are coming from. The suggestion wasn't to ignore "redditors" it was to ignore the redundant questions that inevitably come with a new influx of users. It's a valid suggestion and worth consideration.

If we had an anti-reedit sentiment here, we would be a self-loathing group as the many of the users here hail from there -some of my personal favorites. AND many of the users here actively use both sites, and why wouldn't they? Both sites have their own virtues. It's not a competition.

And the worst part is that the discussion is better on reddit anyway, but I'm sure that's just opinion as well.

I think you've made it clear where you'd rather spend your time. In fact, I recall you mentioning in a comment that you would no longer be on Hubski, yet you return. Why is that? Do you secretly dig it here?