[wp-hackers] Unapproved, yet not waiting for moderation

[Eric A. Meyer]

    I've come up with a feature desire that might seem a little odd, 
but there are good reasons to do it.  What I want is the ability to 
unapprove a comment without having it go back into the moderation 
queue.  For that matter, it would be nice to have the ability to 
shunt a message from the moderation queue to the "unapproved" 
category, so it is neither posted nor left in the queue.
    The general idea here is to keep copies of comment spam that you 
get for later analysis.  For large community blogs, this feature 
could also be useful for tracking abusive posters over time in hopes 
of figuring out a good way to deal with them.
    Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the default WP database is set 
up for this, unless the 'approve' field can be easily given extra 
values beyond 0 and 1.  Any ideas regarding the best way to 
accomplish what I'm trying to do that involves the least amount of 
code changes?

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