I tried lowering and disabling every setting on my laptop, didn't help, it may be different depending on your system, but it didn't work for me
Can't people be banned for this?
You're thinking wrongIt only mutes a user for himself, other people can still read what the user types
MegaScientifical got banned for admitting to having a Client-sided muting program, IIRC
Some spooky stuff.
That scared the stuff out of me. :C