@Soosie I hear that!
@easyed598 (and Soosie) There is an ignore feature on this forum. To engage it, click on a would-be ignored's icon. Once on their page, you'll see an ignore button on the right hand side at about the mid-level.
I take this quite a bit further. Back when I was being harassed by a couple of posters, I created spam filters in my personal email account that deleted certain types of messages including their screen names without me ever seeing those messages. Bliss, I tell ya; bliss. 🙂
To break my habit of looking in on the political forum (kinda like looking at a car wreck as you drive by, no?) I did the same for (an undisclosed number) of daily posters to that forum. Again, total bliss.
I also have my AARP account set so that I am not automatically subscribed to any thread to which I reply. This means I have to purposely seek out new posts to a thread (or that someone I've not effectively blocked has to at-reply me). Which is nice, as I'm currently overbooked in my private life, so deleting a bunch of emails --read or unread-- just isn't making my to-do list. 🙂
I sincerely hope this helps you find the balance you seek relative to the toxicity of our current, uh, civil discourse.
God bless.
"The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical." Julius Erving