Although I'm very tempted to start, I'm still reluctant to ignore users because it feels "permanent" and I don't want to miss out on their contributions if they decide to change their posting habits. I'm aware that I could remove them from my ignore list in the future, but I also know that I'm unlikely to periodically re-evaluate them and so will probably just leave them there indefinitely.
I don't ignore members right away but if I see someone repeats posting spam and low quality post, than I just push the magic ignore button.
This is not so drastic as it seems because you can still see they are posting something and you can partially preview their post or temporary unignore if you want to read what they said.
Ignore is one of the best features for me on bitcointalk forum, and I would even go one step further and add total black/hide users to make forum cleaner for me.
So, what I would really like is if next to "ignore" there was a less drastic option that only added them to my ignore list temporarily[1], something like this
This is not going to happen unless someone creates script or browser extension for that, but personally I think this is waste of time.
Like I said before, current ignore option is not permanent and you can unignore member any time you want, and ignore it back again.
Have you tried the Ignore button? Posts made by Ignored users show a
Show/Hide link, so you can once in a while "review" them when they post in a topic you're reading. Or just wait for someone to quote them.
This option never worked correctly for me, or should I say sometimes it works but most of the times it only shows first line of text.
I don't know if this is browser related, issue with BPIP extension or something else, but I never deeply researched it.