Now that there’s a civilised mute for individual users, how feasible is it to extend it to mute whole user groups?
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around extending Discourse’s ‘civilised mute’ feature to entire user groups, particularly to manage bots or problematic user clusters. RaceProUK proposes this after observing bot behavior on their site, noting that muting individual bots isn’t scalable. codinghorror jokingly reacts with hyperbole, comparing group muting to ‘genocide,’ while RaceProUK clarifies they’re not suggesting extreme measures. sam acknowledges the legitimacy of the use case—especially for bot-heavy communities—but warns against overreach, suggesting safeguards like group-level ‘mutable’ flags to prevent misuse. RaceProUK agrees, emphasizing the need to prevent accidental muting of entire groups like ‘xLT.’ codinghorror humorously suggests renaming the thread to reflect the absurdity of the idea, while sam reiterates that such a feature should only be implemented with careful design to avoid chaos. RaceProUK responds with playful banter, quoting others and affirming the need for caution. Finally, sam concludes that while they’re not building it themselves, they’d accept a clean pull request if someone else implements it responsibly. The tone is lighthearted but the underlying concern—balancing moderation power with safety—is serious.
1 curtida
Straight from civilized mute to genocide, then, eh?
3 curtidas
I wouldn’t go that far 
I asked because of the bots we have at WTDWTF; some may like a way to mute them all in one go, and not have to worry about if a new bot appears.
I think they have a totally legit case there, mute all bots. But forums allowing bots is a HUGE edge case.
I guess you’d also need protections to stop people muting the TLx groups too
I feel like I should change the title of this topic to
We allow bots and they are super annoying, why do we do that?
I don’t know, stop hitting yourself! 
3 curtidas
To design this in a non oh-my-god-this-is-crazy way we would need admins to be able to set a flag on groups with “mutable”, this may be useful if you have a group of “bots” or other kind of “loud but less useful” users.
It is a bit of specific feature creep, not that I am against it, just that its very edge casey.
You know what we’re like over there
True; still, felt it better to ask and be told ‘no’ than to not ask and never know 
1 curtida
I think its in the “i am not building this” but if there is a clean PR that adds support so admins can make a group mutable, I would be ok with it.
2 curtidas