I think we need a feature that tells members exactly how many others are ignoring them.
Why? You can't do that in real life.
How does it affect you, really?
I disagree. If someone is giving a speech in real life, its quite obvious if people are paying attention or ignoring them. Politicians understand this.
There are some serious trolls on certain threads that it might prove helpful if they knew how ignored they were from the get-go. We have a numerical merit system. Why not a numerical ignore system?