This may be a retreaded topic but how about expanding the ignore function so that if somebody is on ignore their thread will not appear? I have a lot of ignores (so many buggered threads and whack jobs- ad infinitum -ad nauseaum folks, so little time ) Lots of those same people initiate threads and I get bugged opening threads where I can't see the original post.
Because if it were done that way, you wouldn't be able to view the posts of anyone else who participates in that thread, so it would like ignoring not only the thread starter but everybody else in the thread as well. And some of those replies could be from members you really like.