Yes. User got either banned or deleted (I think banned, since he later returned), along with all the posts he had done up to that point. Back in the time when rep didn't have a daily cap. Not sure if it was automatic due to reports or done by the staff.

There is actually one problem with an ignore button: There are users who sometimes post useful information, but other times post offensive/bigoted posts. An ignore button will throw out the useful posts. With light moderation, the really bad posts can be removed, while the good posts can be allowed to stay, and the user can be asked (by a moderator) to stop the bad posts.

More to the point, an ignore button just threatens to disrupt the continuity of a conversation when you see everyone else reacting to a troll/extremist and you have no idea what's going on. Lessons learned from JerkMuter.

You could always have a "show ignored content" button if you are curious.
Better to decide for yourself what to do, than have som net nanny decide it for you.

Which is fine, but the problem with this rule is the very reason why hate speech legislation exists in the first place. If you defame a person, or a company, or an organisation, that person/company/organisation is a legal entity that can file suit, in the same way that an insulted person could submit a complaint here.

Religions, races, genders, sexual orientations have advocacy groups, but you cannot expect an entire race, religion or gender to submit a complaint.

Just as an example, one of the biggest problems on this forum is Islamophobia. We have very few Muslims here (I know of just one), and your rule would necessitate that an insulting post be specifically directed at him in his capacity as a Muslim.

Personally, as a German, I don't give two fucks about Nazi jibes from people like Regals, especially given the irony of his statements relative to his own political views. But the fact of the matter is that, by failing to act pre-emptively on hate speech, GOG has discredited itself and also alienated a good number of potential clients. I myself don't buy nearly as much as I used to on GOG simply because I no longer feel the desire to stick around on these forums and be motivated towards impulse purchases. I keep coming back because I hope things will change, but in reality it just gets worse.

And, as I pointed out elsewhere, because GOG specifically directs its services to British, French and German buyers (among others), it is LEGALLY required to remove hate speech (I mean actual hate speech as defined by the law, not just stuff that is deemed "offensive").

I'd like a ignore feature (official), as long as i can turn it off and on at will that would be useful.
As long as it had no negative effect on the ignored individual...that would be most useful.
Add to that ignoring complete topics and all within.

I'm also strongly against paywalls. But I think to prevent people with an army of alt-accounts gaining too much power, new accounts should be somewhat limited. Especially not be able to up/downrep posts. This would prevent people from creating alt-accounts and cross-uprep their ghost-posts in some forgotten Aqua Kitty forum...

Another thing that I would consider is making (+)/(-) public, so that people can see, who clicked that button - other forums do this as well. I'm all for anonymity in other cases, but since the system gets abused so badly...
Also I personally don't have a problem with publicly standing for posts I like or dislike.

Well for imporsonating gog could integrate features that some of us already have thanks to Adalia into the main gog chat. Showing the name of the persont that is contacting you as it is actually shown in forum and not all in capital letters as well as showing the join date of the person.
And in regards of alt accounts, I know this will not hinder determined people but I'm still wondering why gog never introduced the feature that you need to verify your email address before you can post etc. Last time I checked you can just enter whatever you want in the email field (as long as it contains an @ somewhere) and a few seconds later are free to visit the forum.