Indeed, as CJ mentioned there were some dodgy signups a bit back and a whole spate of spamming on sites like this, PHPNuke sites. I banned a load of IPs at the time and deleted some comments, but there's probably loads of them.

Comments on stories has been disabled for a while now because of this, though I see you can still reply to comments already made - hadn't noticed that.

The only thing to do really is for me to delete the spam comments as we find them, or just delete all the comments in stories from the database in one go. The latter will get rid of the spam totally; though it will delete all our comments too, we can't make any more comments anyway because they're switched off.

I'm not sure we need comments in there anyway, we could just link to our stories from threads on the forum and people can comment in there?