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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 4070143" data-attributes="member: 115">Obligatory joke about thread missing poster, and so on, so forth...This is pretty much why I'm against it as well.  It doesn't really tell you anything.  With regards to warning, I'm sure most of us have been spoken to by the mods at least once - sometimes we have bad days, sometimes we get a little too passionate, sometimes we just make mistakes.  It's the same but worse with Ignore.  Maybe you are the most polite person, but you get put on ignore because you don't have the same viewpoint as someone else.  Maybe someone doesn't like your alias.  Maybe you offend someone once and they're heavy on the trigger.  Who knows, who cares?On the other hand, it sets up all sorts of connotations.  Not only that, but it can be used maliciously as well.  Michael Morris said a very true statement - there are people who get their kicks trolling, and knowing this information rewards that, rather than penalizes it.  It may also be used as a weapon in debate or out.  Say I don't like Piratecat (I do, for real! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ), so I round up a posse and mass ignore him.  Suddenly he's labelled as a disruptive, and it really isn't him, but me that's responsible.  That's added mod/admin burden as they have to sort it out.I don't think it's a bad idea - bad behavior in real life is moderated in exactly this way.  However, in real life you can't be anonymous, and anonymity breeds people who don't care about being disruptive or rude.  There's no social consequence for it.  That's why it wouldn't work here - most of us have never met more than one or two others.</blockquote>

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