validation, and login drop the amount of real comments by 10x... plus they are annoying :)
Maybe we should require people getting a Bubbman 2 high score before allowing comments?
Using a custom website means there's way less spam than on things like
wordpress/trac/dango/blogger etc. Since there are heaps of websites
for all of those ones. Also, there's a few protections already in place that mean hardly anything gets in.
A simple addition validation system would be good, like on wiki sites, then do IP recording to ban spammers if they manage to hack it. (What is 4 + 4? [input box])