Comment 2 for bug 695288

There are problems with this suggestion. The reasons for suspension are more complex then presupposed. I think this report is trying to address the issue where a spammer registers an Lp profile and spams bugs and questions. This is less than 50% for the suspensions I have done.

I more commonly suspend a user who has lost control of his gmail or yahoo account. There legitimate bug and answer comments going back many years. Only the recent comments are problematic. We unsuspend the user once he confirms he has reset his passwords and flush caches. When the user is active again, the spam messages will also be visible.

There is a very small set of users who were suspended for rude behaviour. Not all their comments were inappropriate.

This issue overlaps with other issues we understand much better. Suspended users should not appear in the UI. We have several bugs tracking merged, deactivated, and suspended users that appear in the UI (subscribers, proposed members) etc. I talked with Stuart about this. We think we want a garbo job cleans up these artefacts in the data. Merged can happen immediately, deactivated within a day, and suspended in 15 days. We want to permit users to flag comments as spam, we want to change IMessage to permit ~registry and ~admins to hide comments. The act of hiding a comment could also suspend the user in the same action.