Your "arguement" of player list mute does not contradict the votemute, it is just simply another way to do it. You haven't made a single valid point against it specifically and we haven't made one for it. In that case, it should be up to the poll.
Also, the MAIN person against the votemute just so happens to be one of the or the most frequent mic spammer in the server.
Coincidence? I think not. If you want to listen to music that is loud and annoying please use an ipod or something. There is no reason to make anyone else hear it as well.
When you are in the middle of a round and someone starts mic spamming. What happens when you go in for that 5 seconds to mute the player and get killed? That is all the time a traitor needs to strike.
Yes, it does contradict the votemute - because instead of affecting the entire server, all you affect by simply muting a person yourself is you. No one knows that you muted the person and the people that like the mic spam can still listen to it.
Your super-duper argument consisting of me being the "biggest mic spammer" on the server is invalid like nothing named before - I did use to mic spam, true. Have I mic spammed in the last weeks/months? I think not. Some people like to listen to music without having to exit their GMod all the time, and I don't see why it's necessary to prevent them from doing sol.
Well well, yes, mic spamming in the middle of the round CAN get you killed - but, tell me my friend, how is typing votemute, then selecting a player faster than doing that?
Exactly, it is not.
tl;dr: my "arguement" of playerlist mute does contradict the votemute. It's not another way to do it, it's THE way to do it, and there's no reason to bring any other arguments into this; there's not a single valid point by doing this, people know how to mute.
Don't fucking start fixing stuff that isn't broken.