what's striking to me using the ignore is just how many pages and pages of posts TPTB-dick has been spamming to derail substantive and meaningful discussion. there is no doubt he has an alternative motive which is anti-Bitcoin.
I don't share other people's commitment to unmoderated, uncensored discussions... they have their place, but allowing every thread to let in trolls as a principle of free speech is like letting strangers into your house (instead of invited guests) based on the right to free assembly.
Which is a long way of saying... cypherdoc, you should start a "Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. [moderated]" thread. All of the intelligent people will migrate over, and then you can just kick out the trolls.
I personally make it a point to never comment on any moderated thread if I notice that status.
I use moderation as a gauge of credibility. Very few people moderate 'their' thread, and it seems to be people who tend to be on an opposite side as me. Sometimes it is the reverse though. I am always disappointed to see this. There are some people who are at least trolls and possibly shills who are on MY side of the 1MB argument. I enjoy their work often enough, but don't find them very credible. When they moderate a troll post it quashes whatever credibility is left.
Moderation of a thread is for weak-ass losers IMHO. I might as well use reddit or some similar bullshit platform if censorship appealed to me. I respect the degree of freedom that theymos employs in operating this platform and his mods very rarely censor except in the most extreme situations (and I think they are shit-caned when they are caught acting otherwise.) I'm glad that theymos does offer the ability for people to moderate because it is one more tool to help separate the wheat from the chaff.
Actually, I may suggest on the meta board that more attention is called out to moderated threads. Perhaps a more visible tag in the subject.