Not entirely sure what you’re getting at here with the can be many? Are you talking about linked accounts or more than one person ignoring?
I really have trouble thinking how, in a realistic scenario, an ignore feature can be misused in a way that causes anything other than minor inconvenience.
Never happened. Was in game clan system I believe if both parties had RealID active.
Because a single misstep means code can never ever be updated. Despite it being present in an entirely different system for an entirely different game by an entirely different team that may even be in an entirely different building if not an entirely different city or state.
It stands as evidence as a need of assurances by the team that made the error until they’ve proven they can make sure such bugs aren’t likely to happen again.
The WoW forums team and the D4 in-game team are different and thus aren’t responsible for each other.
Who they’re controlled by is irrelevant. Is every citizen in a city responsible for the actions of every other citizen of that city? Even if they’re not in said city at the time of the action?
Nothing went ‘horribly wrong’. A glitch happened, that was addressed. It was embarassing, they apologized, fixed it, and moved on. That’s how a professional does it. They don’t obsess over a small mistake like that.
And, again, even then, there is literally zero crossover between the D4 in-game team and the Forums team development-wise. Management-wise, they answer to the same company, but development is not management.