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[How] can a user be muted? If not, why not?
When I attempt to give back to this community, in the Power Users forum, I find that a specific user is doing their best to absolutely spam it with really low-effort posts. They're not so absurdly low-effort that I consider them to be worth reporting, but I've no interest in interacting with them, and the user's reputation demonstrates that I am not alone.
Similarly, although this might more be the purview for a PU Meta post, I have noticed that very few posts receive much attention in that community, likely for the same reason: wading through it is difficult. [1]
Consequently, am I able to mute them? The sole alternative appears to be to downvote all of the posts I've verified are low-quality. However, that's an awful lot, and I don't want to trigger the malicious action detector, nor do I really have the time to downvote hundreds of posts.
Perhaps, reporting the account is the way to go about this. If so, I presume that the answers shall demonstrate this.
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I don't know of a way to mute a particular user, but I do have a filter on some communities here that hides any question below +0-2.[1]
I encourage you to keep posting and voting, and the more people who do so, the better the environment will become.
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Specifically,
Min Score = 0.4, since the score filters use Wilson Score. ↩︎
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Yes, that's annoying. What's even more annoying is that there seem to be no consequences to someone repeatedly writing content that the other users find inappropriate.
The system should somehow shut down or rate limit users with negative rep (the value of that user's contribution to the community as judged by all the other users). Requiring 1 day between each post for each negative rep point would be a good start. Such things have been kicked around before, but nothing has been done about users consistently posting bad content as far as I know.
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