I don’t believe so, and wumpus has made his opinions very clear in the past (albeit not on QT3).
The above doesn’t include one important reason, in my opinion, to have an ignore list; there are some posters who are no doubt useful contributors on the whole, but whose attitudes or beliefs grate like fingernails on a chalkboard. I don’t mind if other people read them, and I don’t think they should be banned*, but I personally don’t want to read anything they write, because invariably my blood pressure shoots up.
I recognize this is my problem, not the problem of the forum or the forum owner. Ignore lists were a very nice solution to that problem. In any community there are people who don’t get along, and just as we would actively avoid those people in real life, ignore lists were a nice way of avoiding them online.
The post above wumpus’s, in the link, has a workaround; however, I can’t seem to find our user ids (and I’ve looked.)
*well I do, but that’s not realistic.