On some forums its possible to 'ignore' posters who you have no wish to read for various reasons.

We have another batch of posters on technical who ask questions, maybe they don't like the answers, maybe can't be bothered to update their thread, or maybe just vanish from whence they came.

On other forums one could simply put these people on ignore, so you didn't inadvertantly waste any time replying to another of their questions at some point in the future.

Is it possible to include an ignore option on the forum (is there one already which i haven't noticed?), or maybe i'm the only one who gets annoyed at things like this, one can only assume they are the same people who lack basic courtesy in the outside world, in which case i doubly wish to not help them.

We've had some very skilled mechanics here in the past who took the trouble to answer intricate queries which have saved people money, pass on specialist (sometimes makers) instructions via emails etc, in many cases (eg PSA Diesel of Doom turbo lunching when fitted to Ford Focus thread springs to mind) the instructions were copied and pasted in full only a couple of posts up yet the new poster who's time is presumably more important still asking the original mechanic for instructions, few have the decency to thank them for their trouble, little wonder these decent chaps are seldom if ever heard from now.