What if someone is being mean to you,talking lowly of you're religion a lot,or just isn't getting along with you? Now they aren't crossing the line for a moderator to ban them, but you are just sick of reading what they have to say, but you can't do anything about it. You should be able to ignore the person. You just click a button thats, for say, right next to the "Add Friend" button. Then from then on every time they make a post, instead of what they said its just blank.
why would someone abuse it? if they didn't want to hear someone, then they'd use it. otherwise what would be the point? they wouldn't really gain anything from abusing it.
that would make sence, its an ok idea but likely wont happen, would be convienient though, but that would also just put them farther behind sorting through all of those ignores