Microsoft Comment Spam War Goes Mainstream

Well, now eWeek has picked up on the MSDN comment spam problems I've been writing about the last week or so. MS has been employing all sorts of measures against the spam, which originates mostly in China, including moderated comments and turning off commenting on old posts. A much simpler solution would be to replace all the URLs in comments into redirect URLs, much like Blogger does. Considering how bad these things have gotten, redirect URLs should be standard at this point.
(via Alex Barnett)