i have reached a threshold with tolerating the waste of my time that is caused by trolls. i have now successfully had my favorite nostr client, https://jumble.social updated with a feature that allows you to completely hide muted replies including basically all of the thread from the muted user's post down. so *almost* nothing appears to alert you of it unless you replied on the thread with said user, by replying and then muting afterwards.

wasting people's time with nonsense is an offense, in my book. very small, but the rightful response to it is to completely disappear this person from your client. if someone did this shit in real life, i'd bend over backwards to never see them again. i got so much of this shit in my life i'm finally 100% done with it. i already was ghosting people for worse abuse in person than these clowns are doing but they have driven my threshold right down to the point i'm taking direct actions to stop them interrupting my day. and, enabling other people to do the same thing. at least two people immediately were excited to enable this feature that i saw, i would expect that it will become quite popular and a lot of people will enable it, and want it to retain that setting automatically on other devices they use the client with.