User ignore feature now in beta

[codinghorror]

@gracchus

I’ve been using the client-side Mute Tampermonkey script for many months now, and the number of people annoying or aggressively stupid enough to be placed on it has never broken six at any one time (currently four, one of whom hasn’t posted in months). In most cases the person gets banned or leaves/anonymises because they can’t hang here. I have to add a new trolley to the list maybe once every 4 months, tops.

Current thinking is that the max allowed Ignore duration will be 4 months, after that it auto-clears and you’ll need to explicitly renew the Ignore for it to keep going. No change to Mutes, those will have unlimited time duration, as before.

@anon62577920

Or people could register new accts just to pump ignore counts and build a case against someone?

Totally legit concern, so we are making Ignore a trust level 2 ability that you must earn by achieving TL2. Mute is also being moved to a TL1 ability. Details on trust levels.