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user-inactivated  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "you are muted here"

    and have angered my friends and made them uncomfortable, I no longer will tolerate it.

And therein lies the real danger of the mute feature. It's not really about whether or not I've made constructive suggestions to this site, it's about whether or not your friends find my comments uncomfortable.

And this should be the litmus test for whether or not I even get to join in on a conversation.

Here, let me be an asshole now.

Folks like you are the reason atrocities happen. The fundamental lack of fairness to people that are different than yourself.

now I'm truly terrible, but, say what you will, I have made many suggestions for changes that would make this site more in-line with what I expect from it.

As you learned when you read through my history, that is definitely not an accusation that can be leveled at me unless you're ignorant.