The scenario that originally led to this feature suggestion was the problem of newer residents not being able to communicate with sellers because of having accidentally muted them. In the case of an accidental mute, the resident is probably unaware that they muted another resident (or even unaware of what muting does). Adding a dialog prompt would essentially be asking them if they want to undo something they might not be aware of and didn't intend to do in the first place.

Auto-unmuting is a safe course of action because if muting the person was intentional, they can easily be re-muted.

In any case, we did hash this out on the list and the consensus seemed to be just do it, no dialog or popup.

It's also one-sided: if it's easy to accidently mute someone, then sellers could easily mute a customer accidently as well. The need for a seller to contact a customer is just as legitimate as the need for a customer to contact a seller. Offering inventory through script/linden vendor should equally unmute a resident from the script/prim owner's mute list.

It also doesn't account for other scenarios where unmuting might be benefitial (ie buying land from a muted sim owner who now can't contact his/her tenant) or instances where the new behaviour would seemingly have to apply (ie shopping through a HUD with debit permissions won't unmute the payee).

I've also had to actually mute people sometimes because things went wrong, like some script they're working on started throwing out debug mesages all over the place, or giving items repeatedly .I mute them and then explain why I had to do it.

And then there's "I've muted you because you're being childish and abusive. I will umute you when you learn some manners."

THere are many reasons why I, at least would want to communicate with someone I've muted.And I don't want to lose that ability.

If this is implemented, I want an option to disable it. To not even be pestered with a dialog box. When I want to unmute someone, I will.

please just add a confirmation dialog when muting someone instead. That would be much more useful.

I would prefer this to be implemented with a 'temp-message' as with user-online notifications, I don't know how it's been done in the patch, but it would be better to have it pop-up briefly "The user you are interacting with has been automatically un-muted" or such, and disappear. I don't like having lots of messages I either have to choose an option on, or otherwise do something to get rid-of. It should however have some kind of priority or distinction as with grant debit permission requests, so that if someone goes offline at the same time this message pops up you won't miss it.

An option to disable this in preferences, and it's cool.

I didnt see this issue when i started one of my own. There are an additional 12 votes you can transplant at http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-4185

This solution is a much better one than what i suggested.

Darling.

I own a store... if I own a "update group" I don't want that to be a quick way for griefers to force me to unmute them (by joining an open enrollment update group and then opening a notice or something)

Yes, if they IM me, THEY should unmute me... But I should directly interact with THEM (pay them money, IM them directly, send them an item) before MY mute of them is disabled.

"Gellan Glenelg - 28/May/08 08:11 PM
This repros ONLY if the group IM window was opened by a message from the resident being muted.

• Spammer sends a group IM which opens a new Group IM window on my screen
• Mute Spammer
• I send a group IM in the group

Observe: "Spammer was sent an instant message and has been automatically unmuted." in main window; Spammer is unmuted

Sending a Group IM in a group window, which was initiated by a (now) muted resident, should not unmute "