[quote]Sometimes threads would slip through the cracks, sometimes Reports would go unheeded as the offensive content was only offensive to the reader, rather than the community as a whole.[/quote]But we had rules that expressly stated what should and should not be reported, neh? [quote] Are you more worried about the experience of others than your own? [/quote]Partly. [quote]Do you believe that users of this website should be dealt hammers as opposed to your viewership?[/quote]Not sure what that means. [quote] Are you just annoyed by seeing lines of text letting you know that there is blocked content that you could potentially view?[/quote]Yes.[quote] explain... how the new system is detrimental to Bungie.net, as opposed to relying on a small force of unpaid (albeit sexy) forum moderators to censor and dictate your experience.[/quote]Muting is great, but not as a primary tool. It would be the best forum in the world if it were a secondary tool. Getting rid of rules only hurt the community. People that are muted still get posts unhidden- so I think they shouldn't be visible at all- because it's too tempting to see what was posted as is. Yet global muting has been proven to not work since it can be manipulated. Honestly, I feel like the current system would work fine if we had one major change: Give certain people the ability to global mute for obvious asshattery. Because that's the problem here- the people making account after account, crappy thread after crappy thread just to rile people up. Let the moderators globally mute people they deem to be intentionally causing harm to the community (so no bullshit toeing the line bans like on old Bnet- only blatant, obvious, intentional stuff). And don't show their hidden posts until the ban is up, if then. Or hell, remove all tags from the posts they make so they can't be searched for. I don't know- something like that. This way people will still be able to mute minor offenders they just don't like (which is what the feature should be used for- annoyances, not detriments to the community), and the community as a whole doesn't have to worry about people ruining the whole experience for everybody... and for newcomers. And since they can still post, they won't realize they were globally muted for a while longer, so we're free of alternate accounts for a much longer time than we were before. That's what I'd like. Sure it puts a lot of faith in the moderators, and I trust some more than others, but as long as the 'blatantly intentional' coding rule was followed then it shouldn't be a problem.