If I recall correctly, he was the person who popped my 'ignore' cherry, for many of the reasons you list.
You must have half the board on ignore by now if those are your criteria.
I think you got it backwards. I heard rumors that so does reeses.
I have about 2/3 of the chatty fuckers on ignore. I let other people curate the rare insightful comment for me by replying.
But I do believe I have a small but respectable number of ignores myself. Not MPOE-PR scale, but also not too far behind.
you are both the same shade of yellow. how about me? :-)