Correct me if i'm wrong, but does "ignore" only block posts, and not comments? What is wrong with a "mute as comment ignore"? This is probably my favorite solution to this whole mess.

- If you mute someone, you won't be able to see their comments, along with the rest of the child reply tree for each of that person's comments. It would be completely invisible to you, and you wouldn't even know it's there.

- The person also wouldn't be able to PM you (perhaps we could add a new blocking feature to separate these two things apart).

- However, everyone else that hasn't blocked this user can still interact with this user as normal.

- The user can even still reply directly to your posts / comments, but the only difference is you'll never see them or get any notification about it. Perhaps we can add a message for the muted user to let them know that you've muted them, and therefore won't ever see the post they're about to post. Insert "have you tried apologizing?" link here.

- This way it's still not "OMG censorship!", but you still don't have to deal at all with this user. Everyone wins.