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> "A checkbox is a good example. It's pretty obvious."

A check is a tick[1]. On a status page[2] a tick means "working" and a cross means failed. The "pretty obvious" view is that "Muted [x]" has failed in some way. To know any different comes from learning computer UX, the opposite of obvious. (Or is it "X marks the spot", that's the target I should click if I desire "muted"?).

[1] Unicode U+2714 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2714

[2] e.g. https://www.githubstatus.com/



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