Matt, the ignore button works just fine to combat those nasty PM's. The problem with doing it the way you're suggesting is there could have been many nasty PM's back and forth and you would only receive the one a member sent you without seeing all the others that were exchanged. Hard to come down on a person without reading all the PM's and in order to get to the bottom of the complaint, you would have to cross the sacred line of privacy you mentioned and waste a lot of time. The only thing I would strongly suggest as new feature is:
Keep "Ignore this Poster" and "Block Posters Private Messages" separate. I noticed when you block a person from sending you PM's it also puts them on iggy which in my case is OK because if I'm blocking someone, I probably don't want to see them at all. Some people are not like that though, they want to debate other members on a stock specific board but don't want the nasty/vile PM's from these members they are debating. This would be a huge plus and you wouldn't have to get involved with going through a bunch of PM's figuring out who was at fault. If a member tells you they received a PM attack, just tell them to use the block PM feature, make a note of the PM attackers alias for future reference to see if there is a pattern of PM attacks and let the member who sent you the complaint know they will still be able to see/read/respond to messages on the boards from the PM attacker unless they use the "Ignore this Poster" feature....... That simple
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