Likes from muted users aren't visible

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I’m putting this in bug because it feels wrong to me, but if this is working as intended feel free to move to feature for further discussion.

One of my posts was liked, but I didn’t get a notification. I suspected this was because a user I have muted was the one who liked the post, which I confirmed by viewing the post when logged out. Since they were muted, not getting a notification is, of course, expected.

What’s unexpected is that I could not see who liked my post when viewing the post itself. Instead of seeing their profile picture, I only saw an unclickable black circle, as shown here:

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The settings page mentions nothing about suppressing this information. It only says:

Suppress all notifications and PMs from these users

I have this user muted (not ignored) only because they regularly link one of my topics and I was tired of getting those notifications. I have no reason to block anything else from this user.

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This was done because some people who need to mute other users have seeing their avatar as a problem. Occasionally, the muted user can be expected to use the avatar maliciously, and do the damage either in a way non-obvious to forum moderators or before the forum moderators can see it.

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It doesn’t suppress their profile picture in any other way though. This user posted right after me and I can see their profile picture on their post.

Maybe hiding the picture from likes was done before “ignored users” was a thing, but it feels more appropriate there instead of with “muted users” since this has nothing to do with notifications.