- IMO there are upsides and downsides.
When you started this endeavor, the primary distinguisher between Hubski and the others was that there was no "down vote". Moves like this sort of sneak the "down vote" in through the back door. Right now the most popular posts on Hubski receive between 20-40 comments. If you were the author of one of these posts and you "ignored" a user, then their comments automatically fall to the bottom of the comment chain, right? This may not seem all that significant now, but when Hubski has a larger community of commenters, this will be enough to manage this situation. Perhaps if the "author" of the post ignores you, then your comments fall to the bottom of the comment chain in that post for all users that view this post? I'll think on this more. There's no doubt that their will come a time when trolls will troll Hubski and such a move will seem more necessary. It's good we talk about this now.