I love the ignore function that you can put posters on, I've used it a few times.

I also like the idea of connecting the forum posters to their accounts for a few reasons.

If I am correct, and correct me if I am wrong, people don't have to play the game to post here they just have to create an account. With this you have to have a character connected to your forum account to post, and this will make it so only people who have active characters can post. Now I could be wrong about this, but I thought someone had said anyone can create an account and post here with or without having FFXIV.

Also it will be interesting to see who is who on the forums since not every uses their character name as their forum name, what type of classes they have and what server they are from.

I like it, will be fun after the update.