Hi Londonrz.

There would be a certain irony if we started arguing in this thread

I can't believe you are comparing apartheid to having the option to ignore someone on a public form, locking of threads (prevalent on many other forums) or the deletion of threads, prevalent on all forums I know of including this one.

But anyway, I think I answered your question already from a form perspective above, so please accept my apologies if I repeat myself.

If animosity develops between posters, or posters feel threads are constantly pulled off track, you can't simply ignore it as things stand. This forum has always been friendly as a general rule, but an increase in the level of 'controversial posts and comments' can change that, or change the membership. You may disagree, but that is my experience in different forums.

Ultimately admin will decide how they wish to proceed, they provide us with a free service which we are all grateful for I'm sure and ultimately the choice is theirs.

On personal note I can ignore people and threads but have in the past (only a couple of times) used the ignore buttons when particular trolls etc have appeared as logging in and viewing threads without their 'views' made it a more pleasant experience. Each to their, an ignore option would let you see everything you wanted and let others who did not want to miss that, not sure what your objection to that is.