Around here, I feel like the ignore feature isn't very good. I mean if I want to block someone, I don't want to see them at all anymore! The ignore feature is very wishy washy.
I remember the first time I learned about banning. People were getting banned, and then after a while they would get unbanned. I remember thinking to myself. What is the point of this? If your so bad that you need to be banned then why not always make it permanent? Of if you want something that is temporary, then why not call it a time out? So much of this stuff doesn't make any sense to me.
I think The main reason why Ignore Topics is not a popular feature is because if made mainstream it would mean lost revenue for the company. Imagine if Twitter of Facebook implemented it.
For example you see some dumb inflammatory title like “1 million a day are dying from the vaccine”. If you ignore the whole topic instead of all users, there would be no participation for all the users that the site wants to encourage.
As far as banning goes, that’s a whole nother topic and it comes down to the owner or the boss of each site. That’s what it’s all about.
A lot of people forget that each site has their rules so if they ban you for no reason it‘s not about “freedom of speech” or some dumb statement like that. It’s their right to ban you anytime for no reason.
‘If people don’t like it, make your own site with your own ban rules basically.