The idea is awesome!!! You could have something like View / Hide under each user's avatar and it will definitely work better than a) restricting a user's freedom of expression
and b) restricting someone's right to view or not something that they personally don't like and having them freak out over it globally and bug you as mod/admin.
And seriously, how hard could this be? Remember, when you put someone in the ignore bin, whenever you run into their posts you get this View / Hide thingy in the corner.
Well, maybe if you give the avatars of user "1234" the code "ava1234", no matter how many times they change it, you can easily copy the same concept as the ignore view / hide posts thingy and apply it to the avatar.
I can't believe we're still talking about programming nightmares in 2007.
