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I just don't see the point. You can easily ignore them if you want to as is. All the ignoring threads concept would do is foster an echo chamber for specific users. Something GAF does not need to become again.
Again, the point is just to have more threads you may care about on the front page. It's not making anything an echo chamber as I'm already, as you note, "manually" ignoring threads that disinterest me by not opening them. I'd just like to have them not taking up real estate on the first page so I'm more likely to see less trafficked threads that do interest me show up on the first page. People who want to participate in threads aren't going to ignore them. It will have no impact on the level or type of discourse. There was no change on Era when they enabled it and their staff was resistant to it for this type of reason before finally relenting and then realizing there's really zero downside to having the option enabled for users.
If anything the ignore user feature (which is enabled) can lead to more echo chamber mentality as people can just ignore people they disagree with and thus have no chance to see their posts and debate them from time to time. Vs. ignoring threads which is generally just getting rid of clutter than the member was never going to post in anyway.
I'd advise just enabling it (assuming it's not a lot of work). Can always turn it off if there is some decrease in debates. But I just don't see it as people aren't going to hide threads they want to read and post in!
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