# Civilised mute for user groups
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 30, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997 "2015-03-30T22:04:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/1 "2015-03-30T22:04:16Z")
Now that there’s a civilised mute for individual users, how feasible is it to extend it to mute whole user groups?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/2 "2015-03-30T23:03:58Z")
Straight from civilized mute to genocide, then, eh?
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### Author:  [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/3 "2015-03-30T23:05:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/4 "2015-03-30T23:05:43Z")
I think they have a totally legit case there, mute all bots. But forums allowing bots is a HUGE edge case.
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### Author:  [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/5 "2015-03-30T23:06:53Z")
I guess you’d also need protections to stop people muting the TLx groups too
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/6 "2015-03-30T23:08:00Z")
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! 😉
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/7 "2015-03-30T23:08:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/8 "2015-03-30T23:11:44Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I don’t know, stop hitting yourself! 😉
You know what we’re like over there 😉
> [@sam](#):
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> It is a bit of specific feature creep, not that I am against it, just that its very edge casey.
True; still, felt it better to ask and be told ‘no’ than to not ask and never know 😄
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/9 "2015-03-30T23:28:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civilised-mute-for-user-groups/26997/10 "2025-12-04T11:35:48Z")