I knew steem was not private if you used your real life identity but this is just...awesome!
How do the ignores work?
What exactly is being ignored?
Is it when somebody sees your profile but does not follow you?
If that is the case, I am going to follow you right now!
The ignores will bring about just as much anxiety as the unfollows.
Ignores are when someone 'mutes' your account. When you view someones account, at the top right there is a Mute button.
This basically means that they will not see your posts.
I clicked yours now, so you will see the effect, wait a few minutes while everything synch's up.
Followed you back, btw ;)
Following unmutes the account. Essentially your account can be in 3 states from another users perspective.
Hope that does not make it confusing :D
Let me see if I get it.
When I go to a new account I can either follow or mute.
When I follow and then mute, I automatically unfollow.
If I mute an account, does that mean I wont see posts created by the account either on:
Why not call them mutes and not ignores?
I believe this will make it easier to understand right away.
Yes, I think you are right on all counts.
The blockchain stores it as 'ignore', so I went with that, but I agree with you, mute would be more understandable.
I updated the naming now, thanks for the feedback!
I tried muting an account but I could still see their post on my feed that somebody I follow had resteemed. I had upvoted the post: would that affect the muting?
I believe consistency is important: either they change steem or they change steemit. Thoughts?
I am not 100% sure how muting works actually, thats a question for the steemit chat I think.
Often times whats stored in a database is different to what is displayed to the end user. I think it it is ok that the two differ.