Muting someone for being 'a child' is retarded. I'd have thought common sense would have taken away from the rigidity of following rules to the mark. Obviously if someone is minding their own business, but happen to be 13 years old, why on earth should I mute him?
Younger people do happen to be more annoying, yes, there's a correlation, but lets not generalize and mute everyone. Should be obvious, tbh.
ok, thanks for clearing things up..... again >_<
TF2 has its own mute menu....
as i mentioned before in some post that i don't remember where or when....
it's not that it's easy to mute the "kids" it's just that in some game modes it's important to hear out everyone. (it's very important that the player that you can't hear, everyone else can't hear, that's why then you can play safely)
for example: in saxton hale, if there is that one kid that's screaming and fking around all the time, speaks english tho, and then for example some people got tired of him and muted him from the tf2 menu, later on that same kid can ghost to one of his friends using the in-game voice chat or all the remaining people in the server that didn't mute that kid about where that player is, even tho you shouldn't...
for example he ghosts you while you play saxton hale, while you are an engineer and you didn't setup your building yet while the hale don't know where you're at.... that's ghosting, but you never knew he was ghosting, cuz you muted him from the menu.
(however, if you did setup your building and you are ""waiting"" for the saxton hale to *find* you, then it's okay for anyone to ghost where you are at, only at that time)
or even in jailbreak, a ""Dead"" blue or red can ghost of where is the rebelled prisoner is at while the round is still in progress. (for example there are still 8 prisoners, 1 or 2 rebelled prisoner(s), and 4 blues.)
so when you hear him ghost (for example) multiple times and hopefully you were able to record him ghost in a demo or something, you can report him and then he gets punished.
However, in a trade server, you can mute everyone if you don't want to trade and just kill players there. so, if anyone ghosted there... most of the time it won't be that big of a deal.