they arent on the scratch wiki page for mute, ive personally experienced them before, and their source is still mysterious.

do they come from the filterbot, mass reporting, ST, maybe multiple? please explain.

You have to do something really bad, but not as bad for a ban. You cant mass-report comments.

1THEKINGBOB3 wrote:

You have to do something really bad, but not as bad for a ban. You cant mass-report comments.

You can mass report comments

The sources may be over exaggerated, or you have to probably say a swear or something else obviously not allowed and extremely mature.

1THEKINGBOB3 wrote:

You have to do something really bad, but not as bad for a ban. You cant mass-report comments.

who decides to give you these mutes then?

ST itself, some filterbot, possibly an indicator from a filterbot to ST?

and also, i never even did anything that bad, correct me if im wrong.

cake__5 wrote:

who decides to give you these mutes then?

My understanding is the ST gives them. I've never received one myself, so only know what I've heard secondhand, but my recollection from people who have received them is that they were accompanied by an alert explaining they got muted for 12 hours and why (if this has happened to anyone here, please feel free to confirm or refute this).

For automatic mutes they start at five minutes and subsequent mutes increase in time, with the mute time resetting after going a certain amount of time without mutes. You won't get automatically muted for anything close to 12 hours unless you get muted a lot of times before it, and there may be a time cap on automatic mutes (I really don't know, just speculating).

Surely the filter (which is broken at the moment) will give out mutes. If it's broken, the muting responsibility goes to the Scratch Team although you have to report the comment to let Scratch Team know. I was personally muted because I sweared, but didn't include the full bad word.