(January 14, 2016 at 12:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Ignoring them doesn't work because someone will always quote them in reply, and thus the thread gets sidetracked and ruint. I was one of those respondents with the last one, and I won't repeat that behavior again -- but you can rest assured someone will, to the detriment of the discussion.
As people have pointed out recently, the ignore feature is not perfect, it doesn't work in certain parts of the forum, it doesn't completely hide posts, and it doesn't hide threads at all.
Asking people to use the ignore feature rather than just banning the user seems pretty pointless to me. Honestly, I'd rather save space in the database by not having a member make posts which are being ignored by everyone.