Within the past week, I finally decided to give the ignore feature a try. For years, I refrained from using it because I thought that ignoring other posters was a sort of retreat from debate and discussion. I also thought that if I wanted to ignore them, then I could just ignore them. The problem with this thinking is that some posters simply aren't interested in debating and discussing. They come to a forum like this in order to shove their views down the other person's throat and to stroke their fragile egos. Therefore, refusing to address such characters is not retreating from debate and discussion as there is no possibility of such. Secondly, it's hard to ignore someone when they are posting 40, 50, 60 times a day, every day, for years on end. Sometimes, in order to ignore these people, you have to scroll past entire pages of posts. This is a giant waste of time and becomes tiresome. With the ignore feature, their posts are condensed down to almost nothing which makes it very easy to scroll right past them. After using this feature, I find that the forum is easier to navigate and participate on. If you have reservations about using the ignore feature, then I would recommend reconsidering.