It also means that, to take the example of Chompy blocking Swipe
Not only does he not only stop himself from seeing her posts, it means she can't defend herself to the rest of the forum if he decides to start slagging her off. She can't see it and wouldn't be able to reply if she had.

It's too powerful for the typical user.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:08, 5 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

and by powerful it's still a shitty forum of wankers so like who cares anyway

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:09, Reply)

AND it'll result in shit stirring pricks
saying stuff like "oooh, Chompy just said this about you, swipe", or "Swipe just this about you, Chompy". We see that happening with even the old ignore.

It's a shit idea.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:09, Reply)

Oh no! He might slag her off!
Oh how shocking! Oh my goodness gracious! Oh I had no idea someone would do something like that on this site.

How terribly beastly!
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:10, Reply)

The slagging off isn't my problem.
It's the other person not being able to defend themselves. You can see that's an issue, surely.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:10, Reply)

People spend time here slagging me off when I'm not around.
Funnily enough, I don't care.

The only problem I can see is that you couldn't see if someone was say posting links to your real name, but that could be dealt with by better modding.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:14, Reply)

When I'm made super-spy secret mod,
I vow to protect the innocent at all times.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Will you wear a cape?
Please wear a cape.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:17, Reply)

I VOW to wear a cape.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:19, Reply)

MONTY FOR SUPER SECRET MOD!

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:20, Reply)

Better modding is the solution for the entire situation.
You're capable of dealing with it, fine. But there'll be a lot of pricks who can't and will use it to stop people from seeing potentially a lot of content.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:18, Reply)

So you want people who run this site on a voluntary basis to give up more of their time
because some other people who use this site can't be trusted to act in a reasonable manner, rather than the people who run this site coming up with an easier solution that will avoid them having to deal with lots of whiny gazzes?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:19, Reply)

Sigh.
I can see your point. I just think this is a heavy handed way of going about it.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:21, Reply)

see my post down the bottom
having mods clearly hasn't solved the problem, so they had to try something else.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:22, Reply)

I reckon they should leave the posts there
but blank them out, not even the name of the poster. That way you can see the responses but not the annoying person (and if you're ignoring more than one person you don't even know which one it is).
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:11, Reply)

Actually that is a good idea

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:13, Reply)

apart from logging out to see the offending post and logging back in again to do battle with your internet tormentor

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Frankly, if you want to go to that much effort, then you're a lot sadder than I thought you were.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:16, Reply)

it involves no effort at all

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:18, Reply)

Where as before when I had her on ignore for a year and she slagged me off constantly that was fine?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:14, Reply)

No, but if you had that big a problem
it ought to require a mod to get involved.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Like me. Me for secret spy mod.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:15, Reply)

I think assuming how it's going to change b3ta as everyone is doing is pretty stupid.
Just wait it out and in a week see if your fears have panned out.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:17, Reply)

NO CHOMPY I HAVE DECIDED ITS SHIT AND THEREFORE IT MUST BE SHIT

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:21, Reply)

I think it's going to be good, but who knows I might hate it next week.
To be honest it wont make much difference to me.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:22, Reply)

It is funny how the people who are complaining are the ones likely to notice a lot of mising content.
But I still think you should unignore Swipe and pay her the money back. If you do, I'll invite you to a BBQ.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:31, Reply)

I don't think I'm likely to notice a lot of missing content.
The rest of your point I entirely agree with. Swipe does have a point.
( Kroney, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 11:35, Reply)