The ignore feature is to help the person doing the ignoring, it does not impact the person being ignored. If someone has a problem and starts a thread and you are on their ignore list, they do not want your input for whatever reason. If you are interested in the subject or what someone else says, you can easily start your own post. The only problem I have is that I don't remember whose ignore list I may be on (I don't use ignore) so I might write a message replying to them and only after be told I cannot post to that thread. Posts and their subject belong to the person who starts them, the original poster, and one is supposed to be replying to them and helping them, not doing side posts to others in the thread. If I come to a thread late, I only read the original poster's posts before I answer myself, see what they are asking/responding. I like to practice my focus that way.