Let’s take the discussion pertaining to the legitimacy of the squelching system to GD. I only wanted this thread to be a reference for others to use and not serve as a complaints department. Complaints aren’t really handled in CS and often get threads shut down; GD is for complaints.
To be clear, I am completely on your side and think the squelching system needs reworked or thrown into the bin due to its ease of abuse and its effects as we can clearly see, but that discussion is for a GD thread and not here.