mmm interesting. This comment made me realize a way to add the effect of the mute lists on the random walks used for computing pagarank, personalized Pagerank and more.

It's quite simple actually:

The random walk starts from `v`, which has a `mute_list`.

At each step, a `new node` is selected at random from the set:

`out_neighbours(current_node) - mute_list`

This means that the mute list of the starting node has priority over the follows of any other node in the walk.

 

 Many mute lists are private, that's an issue 

 I was referring to public mute lists.

Publicly muting bots and spammers can give the user that does it better ratings. So this might be an incentive to do it.

Maybe it's just a matter of wording. Mute can be private by default, whereas Report can be public 

 That's a good take, we should talk about the incentives to publicly mute/report