And you and you alone are the perfect arbiter of who is and isn't an asshat?

On his posts, and his alone.

I can tell you for certain that your idea and my idea of what a good commenter is are a bit different

It's amazing, it's like that's why everyone has their own ability to choose who they mute.

And that's likely to be true of nearly everyone you're currently curating for

Don't like his curation? Don't follow him. Don't like the fact that some people can't comment on his posts? PM them the link and ask their opinions if you're so inclined to hear them.

Although I wouldn't qualify either one as a good or a bad feeling.

Congratulations, we have reached the point in the discussion where we realize that people are capable of having different opinions.

I'm not sure why you keep comparing unrestricted speech to urine, but I'm not sure it reflects well on you.

translation: "God, I really don't like your metaphors, and so I'm choosing to believe they reflect on your character" ???

You get muted, you can't comment on a given user's posts. You want to keep up with the free speech? Make your own damn post. Title it "[Article Name] For Those Muted By [Submitter]" if you want, you can have a whole damn party. Upset the discussion is split? Link to it. Why is this so hard. There is no limitation on free speech site-wide here. It is on a user-specific basis.