Nope, no ignore feature. And I'm not too sure if there's such a mod. Right now, we're just trying to get a mirror of the current forum over to the new server. This shouldn't be so difficult, except that my workstation crashed about 10 min after my admins finally conceded that there is a problem to be solved. I think that was Thursday or Friday.
So, Ubuntu does, indeed, rock but it's still very difficult for me to function in such an unfamiliar environment. You just never appreciate something like familiar mouse feel and 10 years worth of notes and stuff till you try to function w/o it.
We'll see how it goes.