I had one person on ignore once when I first joined, for posting the same old thing in FS threads mainly, but...

a) kept seeing the blank ignored post thing which annoyed me more that the poster did I think
b) realized that said person was posting a lot of good stuff as well as some repetitive drivel (after un-ignoring of course). Also realized that the person was trolling in quite an intelligent fashion and almost amusingly at times.
c) as has been mentioned by others I am not a fan of censorship, I can just self ignore and skip past posts these days and if on ignore who knows what gems you are missing

Not sure what the etiquette here is for this so congrats Op on your first Ignore