While muting the obvious "trolls" can be helpful I feel that this can [i]potentially[/i] seperate the community. I can see this as being abused and people muting others for not sharing their same opinions. While people should be able control some aspects of their experience on the website I'm not sure if this should be one of them.
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[quote]I can see this as being abused and people muting others for not sharing their same opinions[/quote] That's not abuse. That's a feature. Lots of people aren't capable of having a discussion with others who have different opinions. Those people now can simply mute those who they don't like, and live inside their echo chamber, blissfully ignorant. The rest of us will reserve those tools for spammers and such. Everybody wins.