Ignore from now on

[JustAskJulie]

Is there a way to set up global ignore so that a user is only ignored from the time he is put on global ignore. The way the system is currently set up, all of their posts get put on ignore making it very obvious something has happened to them, when people see responses to said persons posts but can not see the original posts.

If there was a way so that all the old threads stayed but any new posts (after the user was put on ignore) were not visible to other users, then it would just look to other users that the person dissapeared and it would still have the same affect on the problem poster (they would just think no one was responding anymore).