because it was a laughable (and as knives pointed out) poorly implemented concession to all the precious snowflakes that need a safe place from ideas they don't agree with. there was already a built in feature from day one that took care of that. not logging in. self-control.
ostensibly, if the purpose of a messageboard is to communicate, it is antithetical to that idea to provide a feature to do the exact opposite of that.
when i go into a topic, and 10% of the topic is people crying that someone quoted a user they have blocked, i have to shake my head because it seems like y'all have forgotten the whole point of a messageboard in the first place.
See, now we're just going in circles There are some accounts that don't contribute anything to the boards and I don't really blame people for putting those accounts on ignore and it doesn't really seem to have anything to do with not wanting to hear dissenting opinions or being a special snowflake. I think we can all agree that there are accounts that are totally worthless and usually that's intentionally done.
Now, I hear a lot of arguments that say "Well, in those cases I just manually ignore it." And that's all fine and dandy, but I also see the other side that uses the ignore system. It's two different ways to achieve the same effect, and again I'll go back and say that I don't understand why people who don't use the ignore system occasionally insult the people who do. If you're not abusing the ignore system (I won't name names, but some people put a lot of users on ignore for very weak reasons.), then who cares?
but there were already mechanisms in place to deal with the most egregious posters and content i.e.,the entire moderation system. this ignore feature really is some special snowflake nonsense. ---
