I'd pay for thread ignore. It'd be an absolute game changing enhancement of my NSC experience. And I could clear my ignore list.
And we could have a league table of most ignored threads. Lol.
Indeed. That's collateral damage, but there's still hundreds of other posters to read.
Of course a thread kill function would be better but we are where we are.
If I really hate seeing a thread title all the time ( for example a Brexit thread ) I just zap the OP with the ignore gun.
Job done. No thread anymore.