# The Ignore User feature (now in 2.3.0.beta7) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [February 6, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525 "2013-02-06T17:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![pirxdanford](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pirxdanford/32/105549_2.png) [@pirxdanford](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pirxdanford)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525/12 "2013-06-10T09:55:37Z")
Yes, yes I can see that the way I would imagine an ignore feature would more resemble a mute feature indeed. Good catch. But I somewhat disagree with your interpretation of the poll you mention here: > [@codinghorror](#): > > I was somewhat surprised to see the results of this forum survey: > Ignore, Mute, Killfile: how often do you use it on fellow forum members? > > Lots: 5 (5%) > Rarely: 52 (49%) > Never used it: 48 (45%) > Don’t care about this poll: 2 (2%) > > Almost half the users in this sample never use ignore, mute, or killfile on other forumgoers. > > And the ones that do use it, apparently use it very rarely and only in exceptional circumstances. Heavy users of ignore are a teeny tiny minority. I would read it like “more than half of the forum users would use such a feature and the teeny tiny minority that normally can ruin the forum experience for everyone else is smart enough to just ignore the forum enemies.” Anyway as I suggested above adding a min/max version of postings and using this for muting would only increase forum functionality and would allow to have ignore lists as side effect. I believe its a pretty simple and elegant solution, as it would also not require as many changes as a full out ignore (nuke them from orbit) approach to other users content. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-ignore-user-feature-now-in-2-3-0-beta7/1525)._