You don&#x27;t want to ignore all abuse and harrassment as it may include death threats and so forth. This makes ignore as a feature unusuable to anyone who actually deals with abuse or harrassment.<p>It&#x27;s a stupid feature people who don&#x27;t care about this topic implement to be able to pretend they&#x27;ve done something.<p>Blocking only works if the cost of creating new accounts is high enough to turn off harrassers. That&#x27;s almost never the case unless you&#x27;re running an MMORPG or something.