Blocking people in Group Chats

 Hello there, I've been doing a great amount of reseasrch on this topic, and it seems that blocking someone doesn't prevent you from seeing their messages posted to a group chat that you're both in.
Previous "Solutions" have amounted to "Hope you're an admin and can kick them". I'm told that this feature used to be available in older versions, but having trawled through a great many dubious download sites not one of the old versions that purport to still have this feature has still been supported by Skype, connections from those old cleints are refused. I'd really, really appreciate it if this would be re-implemented, and don't really understand what could possibly be the rationalisation behind removing it in the first place? I see a great deal of requests from the community, of varying degrees of politeness, expressing confusion and anger about this and I hope that making a posting here might lead to some kind of fix, once and for all.

Yes, block/ignore function is mandatory in every application which provides some kind of group chat functionality. Especially if these group chats are somewhat persistent like they are in skype. I don't understand why this MOD "Ellie" suggests the things she did in her post. Do you really think that when there is 5-20 people in the group chat, everyone tolerates everyones... "potentially constructive" or "worthwhile postings" like Ellie described the messages. I can answer this myself. The answer is no, people won't tolerate each other and they shouldn't because there should be ignore/block function available also in the group chats. Jeez, why do I have to even explain this stuff... Please, implement ignore/block function to the group chats.

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