I have a core group of haters/detractors who follow my posts regardless of the category and comment or leave negative emoticons. I would like to be able to block them from seeing my posts across the board. This would GREATLY improve my experience here... and perhaps others would use this feature as well.

He’s clearly poking a specific set of people. He knows who they are (he wants to block them) and they know who they are.

I’m not saying he right or wrong, I’m just saying he’s intentionally poking people, which opens himself to those who want to poke back.

As for the question about how many ignores he has, this was MM’s opening comment of his post:

I make no secret and have no regrets about my generous use of the ignore and block features of CB through the years.

He’s basically begging for drama and these types of follow-ups.