It's hard to ignore a car alarm going screeching for 10 straight minutes at 3 am, and it's hard to ignore a throbbing toothache, and it's hard to ignore an angry bee.
But given that we'd have to be pretty obsessive just to read even a quarter of what's written at babble, how hard is it to add another thread, another post or another poster to that 75% that we're already ignoring?
That said, I kind of wish there were an ignore button too, even though I don't believe we need one. But if we had one then about half of the complaints that the mods field could be easily addressed by "Please use the ignore button."
I wonder how many people would actually use it? Wouldn't the curiousity just eat them up?
I think that what people really want, deep down. is an "Ignore" button that makes everyone else have to ignore a post/poster too. Where's the fun in ignoring someone if everyone else is talking about them?