Dewdlz

A blocked user can still contact the member through someone else's update. It's belittling to have that behavior in the forum.

Having the ability to ignore members on all status updates/comments would be good for those cases; I'm kinda surprised that option doesn't already exist, though I'm not a programmer, so I've no clue how much work would have to be put in for it.

Status updates are linked to an individual and is also linked with having the inability to remove certain content from each member I assume. Like accounts cannot be removed because of the presence of post-count the user made. It would cause problems. However things can be hidden but I'm also no expert on the field.