Comment 56 for bug 1614403

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kaputtnik (franku) wrote :

Comparison of 'deleting a user' against 'setting a user inactive':

Deleting a user:
- He has to register from scratch
- He may use the same user name and email address when registering again

Setting a user inactive:
- As long he didn't log explicitly log out, the setting does not take effect. And if he once logged out or get logged out by us:
- He has to register from scratch and MUST use a different username, he could use the old email address

I couldn't see any advantage of setting a spammer inactive, in fact it could be bad because he MUST use another username whereas deleting him there is a chance that the username is always the same (giving some more hints to hide posts 'by username'). So i agree deleting a user is the better approach.