[The Humanaught]

Hi... sorry, don't mean for that headline to sound critical at all of Pligg, as I love it more than a cold beer on a hot day.... ok, that's not entirely true.

Anyway, I'm really wondering why the Spamkill feature is so nice to the spammers? Why are we still just changing their password and not removing them and their offending posts right from the database?

There was some issues of how this might hurt comments made by the offender - but in practice, how many spammers are leaving comments?

Also, the whole "discard" thing leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth - it inflates the database and leaves the linkylove intact (for anyone with a reasonably good PR rating - which is why you're being spammed in the first place).

Am I the only person who wants a stronger solution? Does anyone have any idea how to implement this? I'm comfortable with PHP, but a little unclear on the MySQL commands needed to mod the function.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Ryan