I started work on an application to display an image based on status; it works, but I gave thought to it...
If you want to do a check, you really have to check 3 items (username, email, ip); so if you do a check on one user, you have to do 3 checks... So if you're looking through say the user list, that's 20 users per page, at 3 queries per user, that's 60 queries per page load... I think you'll end up being blocked from using their API for doing such things...
