I like the idea of a "muted by author" badge. That would make clear that a comment is not wanted here and warn readers to take that content with a grain of salt or even mute the npub themselves. We might need a mute for individual posts then or should we maybe use the 1984 reports instead? 

 I'd say showing mute-based labels but also reports by people in the thread could both make sense. 

 I like this. 👍🏼