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Of course, you administer your own forums as you prefer, but I don't really agree with that position at all. Web forums bring together so many different people that it's inevitable that some won't get on with others. Sure, some people are trolls and never have any worthwhile input; they are indeed candidates for being banned or otherwise dealt with. But a lot of disputes are between individuals who don't like each other for whatever reason. Poster_A may not like Poster_B, but they may both be worthy contributors, liked by other members of the forum's community. It's great if they can simply ignore each other. Now, we can say "be grown up about it and show some self control," asking them to ignore for themselves; but human nature is what it is, so things are made much simpler if the forum software can do the work of ensuring they don't see each other's posts.

Of all the features my posters have lost in the move from vBulletin to XenForo, an ignore feature is the one I get asked about most often.