Don't most members here have a lot of sections on ignore?
Nope, I don't have any section on ignore at the moment, even those that I never visit. I did try it in the past but I felt like something was missing, even though I didn't check those boards before ignoring.
Maybe I browse the forum differently, but I've been doing it the same way since I registered--my main page for browsing threads is "Show unread posts since last visit" link. If I didn't have 98% of the forum on ignore, I'd be seeing threads in many different languages and all sorts of stuff I don't want to see. As I'm writing this, I'm starting to think I've gone full retard.
If that's the way you browse the forum, it definitely makes sense to ignore as much boards as possible.
How do the rest of you browse the forum without ignoring a bunch of sections?
For start, I don't use "Show unread posts since last visit" option at all and instead I just browse the forum for interesting topic in boards I usually visit. That's pretty much the way I browse all other forums so when I joined bitcointalk I just continued doing the same.