jtara - 2:05 am on Oct 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

It is a bit surprising, but my guess is that we don't see it because it would be too easy to manipulate in many forum situations.

Visit some of the stock investment discussion sites. Where this feature has been available, it has been widely abused. To the point where people have written software to automate the process of having a poster "ignored" by hundreds of accounts.