Reverend said:
Well, not only do I ignore certain threads... I ignore certain forums here as well!
If I can read a thread that contains no posts by someone I don't want to read (i.e. the "ignore poster" feature), then I don't need to waste the extra/useless time it definitely takes if that poster's posts exists in the thread. It sounds easy to "scroll past such poster's posts in a thread" but it is annoyingly time consuming, believe me, especially if that thread has some interest to me, which means I'd need to see every post before I decide "Shit, why is this post here?". Of course, it just makes the thread that much more to my liking if it is "clean" (without posts that I don't want to even see, much less read, by posters I want to ignore).
It's a good feature, which I think is basically what you're saying.
I think it is not needed (at least not any more than a "leave freaking Guests out of the forum, for God's sake!" feature), and can cause problems in the form of repeating points which have been made but ignored.
I do not see one single reason why one should bother with such a feature, when at the end of the day, even guys "u don't like" make valid points or at least point which can be debated in threads. What happens when a thread made of people who ignore each other gets filled up of the same points over and over again, just because those people don't see each other!?
I just see this as a childish rant, "
I don't like that guy and i don't wanna see him ever again!!"... I mean, come on...