I think this new mute/ignore feature is for the most part a good one. But I find myself wondering if people caught up in heated debate are going to jump to use it trivially, thus homogenising their own BNet experience somewhat. So I started thinking of reasons I'd block or mute people. This is my list: 1. Assault/death threats - I get these by PM too often, and blocked PMs from certain users on the old site. It'll be nice to be able to extend that block to the site at large. That kind of thing is no laughing matter, so it'll be nice to be able to get rid of it. 2. Stalking - this isn't as big a concern to me as it might be to some other people because I'm pretty public about my real name/whereabouts and I'm not under 18 so I don't have to worry about predators like some younger users might. But I've definitely seen cases on this site of users being stalked - even to the point of being followed offsite - and being able to block such users from interacting with you would be one small step towards stopping that. 3. Spam accounts - I'm pretty lax in my approach to people being silly in threads, but John Cena spammers and the like are just nuisances. Honestly, that's all I can think of. It wouldn't even occur to me to block someone just because they had silly opinions, or because they didn't like me. I would hope most people would see the ignore feature as more of a last resort than an easy way to block out anyone who disagrees with them. How will you be using it - to filter out the truly nasty parts of your experience, or just to shut out people who aren't exactly like you, or somewhere in between?