Stealth- Why is squelching someone because their voice annoys you or more importantly, the amount and volume of their speaking is messing with your chi with regards to operating your plane not valid? That seems to me to be the best reason to squelch.
For me, I don't really care what the guy thinks about it, I don't think I've ever even announced 'I'm squelching you.' because frankly it's not important to me to tell them. The reason I squelch people most of the time is in line with Jamdive's. If I can't hear my squaddies or most of the other sounds in my plane over someone, I squelch. The people I've noticed do it tend to do it habitually. What is permasquelch harming in that case?
Sometimes, there are people who seem like all they ever do is talk the same, uninspired crap on 200. I have no real desire to listen to some of them because they're just plain boring. If someone's sole contribution to 200 is 'nice ho/pick/vulch' every single time they're shot down, where's the harm if I want to have their voice cease to exist in my world?
Again, the people who make me wish for this feature generally speaking aren't harmful exactly, aren't breaking any rules, they're just either too prolific in their use of range vox or they're just plain boring. My point is, they aren't going to change, they shouldn't even necessarily have to change. I just don't want to listen to them because either the useful stuff they might mention is at a 1:100 signal to noise ratio, or I've never heard them say anything useful.
It's not about them, it's about me. I just don't see a reason not to have this feature.
Wiley.