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Ignoring a person obliterates their comments, and their profile from lists, and their ability to contact you.
But it doesn't nuke forums they have created or conversations they have authored. The reason being is that these are containers for many people's contributions, and you may well want to avoid the person who started it but still find all of the other stuff valuable.
Those things can be ignored individually.
i.e. if you want to ignore me you can (really, you can), but if I had authored the ignore system to hide anything I'd ever started, 90% of the forum would have just been nuked.
So a difference is perceived... that you can ignore anything I say, and choose to never see my comments... but that the forums, conversations and events I've authored remain (sans-my comments) and act as containers for other people's stuff.
You would still see my name as the "Started by " text, but you'd never see my comments.
You can always choose to ignore whole forums, conversations, and events. But that is an explicit thing you do, and not an implicit thing because a person you are ignoring created it.