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I mean, the obvious answer here is "to everyone I hate", but what do I do if I get one in return? Is there a particular moderator/admin that I should contact, or will any moderator be acceptable?

Any of us.

The PM system subject to the same restraints as the open forum. We don't go about policing it regularly because (1) it's private and (2) to delve into it takes up a fair bit of technical admin time.

That doesn't mean we ignore complaints about rude PMs and so on.

In many cultures, a PM full of ASCII nude selfies are a sign of love.

Admittedly, they're all cultures I just made up, but still.

I got the wrong end of the stick. Sorry about the dick pics.

 Peregrine wrote:
I mean, the obvious answer here is "to everyone I hate", but what do I do if I get one in return? Is there a particular moderator/admin that I should contact, or will any moderator be acceptable?

If its a case of someone just generally being an a-hole to you via a PM, the first step we're going to ask of you is to just stop replying to them, and to even stop opening/reading any PMs they send to you. its probably best to also 'ignore' that user on the forums as well. Doing those two things will usually stop the issue 99% of the time.

However, if they somehow keep PMing for weeks despite no response from you, or the contents of the PM are incredibly vile (like threats of bodily harm, racist slurs, etc.) then definitely let a moderator know.

Either way, just telling a moderator the name of the user doing this is a good idea so we can put it into their user case file so we can spot when there is a pattern of this type of behavior.