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RE: I want to be able to mute tags.
I have never seen this feature on any social media platform. What you can do is only follow the people that you enjoy their content. Then occasionally throughout the day, switch over to Trending or Hot. Problem solved in the interim. It is similar to building lists on Twitter.
Good, then we can have it as an exclusive Steemit feature if we're not able to have subgroups (like Subreddits).
Frankly, if I have to do that, I won't ever remember to do it and people will stay unfollowed. Also, the stuff I don't care to repetitively see still shows up, which I don't want at all, so this is not really a resolution at all, in fact it's barely a band-aid. This isn't a matter of follow/unfollow. I want to straight up MUTE those topics so I don't have to keep moving past them like obstacles.
There are instances here where I have users I would love to follow because I DO enjoy some of their content, and I even interact with them on their posts. But then those same users may have content I would just rather avoid all together. I don't want to unfollow or mute that person, just those topics.
This should absolutely be an option.
Actually, I bet you have, but it's not really a "mute" function so much as a subscription issue. On reddit, for example, you can subscribe to subreddits. "Muting" them in the case of reddit simply involves unsubscribing, or not subscribing in the first place.
Subscribing/unsubscribing, muting/unmuting, and following/unfollowing topics is currently not an option at all on Steemit. By default, we're subscribed to EVERYTHING without choice aside from the ability to just totally mute a user. To me, that's bad. If I want to avoid any/all posts about sports (I don't, just an example), I don't want to have to mute every user who posts about sports because A) that would incredibly tedious, and B) knowing that most users who do post about sports don't post ONLY about sports, so muting them would be a greater loss than simply muting the sports tag.