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

[Mark Jaquith]

You could save them in their own table, to keep them separate.

You could add a field, like "spam_archive" or something, and alter the 
admin interface so that those comments don't show up on the list of 
comments waiting for approval.

Eric A. Meyer wrote:

>    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?
>