I'm curious about your methodology. I also think I have a pretty slow trigger finger, but often people are just over-the-top assholes and there's no question about it. When I see a reply in an interesting place that's muted I'll sometimes look at it to re-evaluate.

The hardest are users that, from time to time, slip into periods of being generally okay, and then I un-mute them, only for them to return to their assholish ways in short order, and thus need re-muting. Sometimes I think that it would be good if there were a "mute leaderboard" where you could see, globally, who has been muted the most. But then I wonder if there would be something perverse in that.

A good lesson that we each contain multitudes, I suppose.