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@Lilly

The whole topic will be out of context if that happens. All it would take would be 2 or 3 people ignoring a few others and the overlapping ignore circles would create chaos when they all post.

This could be, good reason to be wary of this kind of feature to avoid that.

@Heliosurge

I lost a really good contributor who found the ignore function was not good enough as he was bothered by an ignored user who in his opinion was gas lighting others. Even with me explaining the site will notify moderators and the ignored; the community might be finding them toxic if 5 ppl ignored them

That is too bad about your loss.

The notification threshold of if five different members to have ignored someone seems kind of arbitrary depending on scale of site. There may be good reason to take moderation action before that number is reached.

@Heliosurge

Best one I had sorta kind of working simply blanked quoted content but still showed there was a quote. But imho simply hiding direct replies should be sufficient for most.

In theory this idea makes sense to allow people to hide/ignore both another member and primary direct responses to them. Literal example of this would be that people have a right to bring their own ear muffs to a community meeting so that they don’t have to listen to everyone, and if a lot of arguing breaks out in response to what someone says probably good idea to keep ear muffs on until/if that calms down.

However if there is important information in comments / discussion that people are ignoring then there will be redundancy in discussion and possible confusion from missing that.