Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5319459-20121204001843/@comment-5358994-20121204002945

Spam comments are a big issue, and the question of removing comments has come up before. We didn't remove them then because the alternative was talk pages. Now, the alternative is forums. This enables users to ask specific questions about an article, and it requires them to make a couple extra clicks. This will surely discourage potential spam comments. With removed article comments, no longer could an anonymous user quickly type "asdfasdf" and press Submit. Plus, it is even easier to pick out the spammers from the normal editors. A definite yes for me.