Ignore Lists are like mute buttons. I prefer to see everything and use my scroll wheel.
I get this point in theory.
In practice, time is opportunity cost. I want to maximize my funtime here, and part of that involves curating my experience, much like I do with muting/blocking accounts on Twitter (where I fucked off to, during my absence here)
There are some people I will never agree with, and don't care to read their opinions/content, because it literally is a waste of my time, and a net-negative in my life, so I prefer to curate my experience to optimize time.
Yeah, I see your point too. Personally, I like to see everything and scroll-wheel the ones I'm not interested in reading. I don't think there's too much clutter in WO anyway. It's amazing how this thread has achieved a kind of equilibrium, not much trollery/spam. I think most posters have something interesting to say, even when I don't agree with it. I may still read it, because it may help me see things from a different perspective.
You can peek on ignored users' posts by reading them as quotes by other users. This way you can, perhaps, reassess and unignore certain users.
In any case, there's no need for name calling, especially between WO regulars. IMHO.