Oi, if i have someone in my ignore list, i really want to ignore that person, i don't want to go to a thread and see lots of posts of the person i am ignoring with a "Heads Up! You currently have this user ignored. To view this post you must unignore the user."... like duh... you don't say...

I agree 100%. Unfortunately a thread like this is an exercise in futility, Renderosity management clearly don't give a shit about the workings of this forum beyond the fact that it's a place to flash a lot of ads and sell some stuff. It's now how many months since the "what needs to be fixed?" thread, and not one of those issues has been addressed.
On the subject of ignore buttons, I think it would be useful if a user could see how many people have him on ignore. I would imagine that the sort of poster who likes to ruffle feathers would be secretly disappointed to know that a number of people choose not to even see what he writes, and it might just lead to a change in forum behaviour.