The "Foe" function works though in a curious way

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You have selected a foe and confirmed the "ignore" instruction from the options on your message and settings options page.

Naively, at first, I made the (wrong) assumption that the ignore function meant you could read a thread though any posts from a confirmed foe would appear only as a blank text box with the posters name beside it.
In practice though, a foe's message shows up on your screen with all the others. So how does the "ignore" setting function?

The only way that I have made it "do something" in my experiments is click on the user-name of a selected foe who is posting in a thread - you have to click on the foe username in a thread, not the entry on your personal settings page; the thread doesn't have to be one that you are posting in.

Clicking the foe's username takes you to their page, then if you click on "show all posts", you get this message line repeated over and over for as many posts as they have ever made:

"This post was made by .... who is currently on your ignore list. Display this post".

It doesn't identify the threads, content or dates.

So far as I can see, unless I am really missing something here, the current foe function serves no practical purpose. If the message could be changed to:

"This post was made by...who is currently on your ignore list. Click here if you wish hide this post when you read this thread .... "

then it would be potentially useful.

Has anyone else discovered another way to use the foe function?

I hope you don't think I'm your foe!

You don't even come close!