its my understanding that the ignore list is for our own protection for our own triggers, its not meant to punish or prevent other members from having full access and use of the site.

a member can place someone on ignore and the person who has that person on ignore will not see that members triggering posts ...unless they either remove that person from their ignore list or if they are reading posts with out being logged.

the person you place on the ignore list can not post with in any threads that you start.

members on your ignore list can read your posts.
members on your ignore list can post in any other threads on the site started by other members than the one that has them on ignore.
members on ignore can start their own threads about the same mental disorder, symptoms, topics that someone elses thread is preventing them from participating in due to the ignore list of another.

examples...

if I amanda put member A on ignore I dont see member A's posts and member A can not post in my thread.

If I amanda am posting in member B's thread the one I have on ignore (member A) can also post in member B's thread, because Member B does not have them on their ignore list. I dont get to see what A posted just a notice that I have ignored A and gives me the option of removing them from my ignore list if I am choosing to see what they posted.

Member A gets a notice that I have them on ignore so they can not post in my thread about eating broccoli so member A starts his own thread about eating broccoli.

see what i mean the ignore list prevented me from seeing anything member A posts but does not prevent member A from having full access to the site. its a protection not a punishment button.