I would be happy to pay for a site that allowed the user more options;
Thread ignore
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Selective ignoring of mods. This wouldn’t affect site announcements or PMs but would just allow people to ignore the general shite and abusive posts they make.
Yeah, I now do the same whenever a political thread appears. I ignored Kingston Seagull when that thread was put back on the main board. Not his fault but I guess someone in the mod team was either very naive or wanted a rerun. Kingston is probably a decent person who makes great posts about...
I find it odd that there are posts on here actively opposing a thread ignore facility. Seems odd to want to control what other people want to read about.