User blog comment:MakePastaNotWar/Second post/@comment-1917487-20111028222813

Suggestion: The mute button is your friend. A lot of times, people stigmatize the mute button, but many of the people who do don't seem to realize that doing so actually helps trolls a lot of the time. The obvious reason is that it gives trolls more targets to talk about. I'd say, if someone wants to be stubborn and not mute, then it's pretty much their loss. No stress to the people who do mute for not having to deal with something they maturely stepped away from.

As for the layout, as far as I've heard, people were randomly given one of three new layouts just to get feedback on what seems to be liked the most out of all of them. There may be a more permanent layout change in the future but for now, it's just testing.