I understand the usefulness, however I am not sure how it can be implemented. The moment the moderator reviews the offending post, he is no longer "in touch" with the member who send in the complain. I mean, in the standard procedure, all the reporting does, is to create an e-mail which is send to the moderators about the specific post. The moderator visits the forums, to check the post and does whatever he has to do, as far as the original poster is concerned, but there is nothing in vB connecting that post to the person who complained (at least I didn't find anything).
The only way something like that could be done (and I am talking off the top of my head now), is if you have installed Xenon's hack, which creates a new thread in a specified forum, every time someone reports a post to the moderators. What could be done in this case, is to add a button somewhere, with a predefined response which will be send to the user who reported the post. But then we are opening up other issues, such as "how would a moderator know, if another moderator has already answered this complain and clicked on the button?" etc. It can be done, by changing the thread's contents, but is this what you had initially in mind? As I said, I can't see how it can be done without Xenon's hack.
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