[wp-hackers] Comment storage for spam comments

[Matthew Mullenweg]

Brian Dupuis wrote:
> Is there a reason that I'm missing that comments that are marked as spam 
> are still saved in the database? I didn't notice it until I realized 
> that I haven't updated one of my plugins to account for spam comments 
> when counting comments. Upon looking I have roughly 200 comments marked 
> as spam in the database and no way of seeing them in the administration 
> interface. In digging through the code it there's a comment somewhere 
> about saving it for "crunching later" which implies some sort of 
> post-processing. But I don't see any kind of usage of those comments 
> unless I'm missing it.

Crunching later, we just need something to crunch in the next version or 
for an enterprising plugin.

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