The Ignore User feature (now in 2.3.0.beta7)

[pirxdanford]

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:

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.