Just an interesting note, since it started showing, my ignores has gone up four and my MM's down one. I'm sure no correlation though. I think it goes ahead and confirms to those people on the fence about you that they are not alone.
Of course, since the filtering thing can be turned off anyway, it's more a way of just blowing a raspberry in someone's direction.
Even odder yet is my filtering tool is working today with a mind of it's own. It's gone off and on a few times already.