Er that would be a simple hack to the software dude, any competent PHP coder could do it for you, if you require help with it.

Freddie, l code with IBM databases which have something called virtual fields which gets around the trade offs, not sure of the MySQL equivalent. Any database that is not at least at 2nd normal form runs the risk of redundant data, and conflicting data for the same value. Generally l go to third normal form, but not much beyond.

All of this is off track as the board in question has in fact removed several people without this being a problem. Just had confirmation of that fact from a member at another technical site.

So one is left bemused by this statement, clearly an Admin is concerned that once one person gets removed a lot of other people will want to be removed.

Of interest asked the folks over at bbAdmins their views on removing member accounts from their boards, response so far is 100% they do so. Equally none of the vBulletin users report any problems with doing this, and as some of these guys run huge boards would image they may include some of the hacks which poise a problem apparently.