@Robert Gentel,
I've run into what looks like a glitch in "following"
I've just tried to follow a couple of people - and it seems to toggle the ignore/unignore function.
1. went to profile
2. looked at options - follow and ignore show
3. clicked on follow
4. ignore flipped to unignore (which suggests to me I've now got them on ignore)
5. clicked on follow again - unignore went back to ignore
(I'm going to send a link to this note to "contact us" - I'm posting it in case anyone following along has run into the same thing)