My ignoring of PDJ was done without declaration of doing so and I never clicked on the + sign until he was near his death. I admit to feeling sorry for the old coot and keeping up with him when he was dying. But yeah... I really didn't ever look on his threads or click on the + until that point. I only put people on ignore who are directly attacking me, personally, with ugly uncalled for childish insults for absolutely no reason. That's how he earned his ignore. It was the only way I could post to threads without my feeling totally violated. I hated when people quoted nasty stuff he was saying to me because I had so totally ignored him.

For me, ignore is a self preservation tactic. It's something I only do if I really can't handle the personal attacks.