There was a thread a while ago about why mods can't be ignored. However, mods are allowed to keep an ignore list of their own. Dids, for example, maintains a 40 person
ignore list. What if someone on the list needs to PM the moderator, or makes abusive comments in a thread?
Dids' ignore list - many of these people post in NVG:
Note to microbob: Sorry, I didn't know where else to put this.