Thanks for the response. I think moving this to a more global/persistent configuration is a good idea. The players you want to ignore are generally not specific to individual games/saves, or even servers - they hop around. It can be frustrating to have to re-ignore the same people over and over ...

You cannot ignore players permanently - not sure how all of that works but it would be nice to have ignores saved to a local config that is capable of persisting throughout version updates.