I've been lobbying for it for the last year. It's one of Bob's "I don't like it so I'm not gonna have it" features. It's counterproductive to getting a lot of hits to the site. I guess as a site owner he will have to weigh the value of those hits generated by a flame war as compared to those users that see such activity and never darken the door again. But you do seem to have had a recent spate of luck in getting management to listen so perhaps things will change. I'm with you on an ignore feature.