Not really. Folks want to be able to see and respond to everyone, even you GR/NHB, but some folks do not want to be notified when some posters react to their post. They want notifications about quoted posts, they want to respond to those posters... they even want to have conversations with them, they just have no interest in whether that person reacted to their post.Euh because you are talking about changing it. It was already pointed out that you were concerned about the reactions flooding a person's account. Fair enough but there is also a fix in place for the problem with the ignore feature. It honestly seems silly to even be discussing it.
So, to reiterate I will be making a modification that will let users ignore the reactions from any poster they choose to ignore reactions from. What is unlikely is any change to the points system. The "in" crowd can keep their scores, and the rest of us can simply ignore their reactions...