6000 Members; with at that time 300 members regularly active. 5 is very small value.
Other platforms already demonstrates it does not affect the discussions & that is the platforms that use a mutual block. Meaning if you block someone you don’t see each other’s posts or replies to one another. See Reddit
I personally think just hiding direct replies is sufficient vs the mutual block as the mutual block you might lose some good info.
There is a topic on here about shadow bans if you recall? The curre t Discourse Ignore feature works more like a personal shadowban vs a site wide one. Which while site wide shadowbans are maybe not a good idea. Discourse’s personal ignore shadowban is not bad it just needs to have more finess to give those who need a touch more controls.
The whole position important info will be lost is a misperception. The team here for a long time avoided any ignore user options & later even added not only this part feature but added permanent as an option as well.
A member prior to the team here adding this part feature. One of my members created his own tampermonkey script with ab ignore user feature and it also dressed up Ops, certain groups and also added nicks to certain users
It was not a more complete block but was sufficient at that time with the membership when he shared the script. As prior their was no option at all.
Bottomline there are communities that really need this extension. A theme component should be sufficient. If you want a key type community - Mental health help communities & political communities can be quite polarized. An over simplified ignore is simply not enough to keep drama down. Some may even need what people call a “True Complete Block”. However I suspect my proposal will be sufficient for most. A TC is sufficient as no one that will use the feature is going to try and circumvent it.