Forgive me if this has been suggested before (and summarily shot down), but I'd love to have the capability to follow specific posters on the forum. There are a handful of people whose opinions and advice I enjoy, even when I don't agree with them. There's lots of noise on the forum, so finding these gems isn't always easy.

An ignore function would also be great. For every good poster, there are about 250 terrible ones whose existence I would like to forget about.

Possible? Thanks!