Hi Sven,
Could you please introduce a significant penalty for comment/forum spammers, e.g. 1-3-month suspension from the iPad promotion (as the purpose of such low content comments is usually getting a raffle ticket)? Anyone who can't take as few as 5 minutes to find content that genuinely interests him/her and write a relevant comment on it totally deserves punishment for neglecting the comfort of lots of other members.
If you're unsure what constitutes spam for the purpose of this penalty and what doesn't (e.g. it's annoying to see someone repeat a comment that someone else has posted to the same video or news or post an excerpt from the news itself without commenting on it additionally), you could let the community decide, e.g. post a disciplinary poll (one per each offence) in the Platinum-restricted area and suspend the offender from the iPad promo if >75% or whatever % of the VIP voters are in favour of the penalty - I'm sure they'll be quite objective because few of them actually care about increasing their chances in this cheap raffle, rather, they care about the pleasure of conversing with a genuine poster or annoyance from reading spam.
That said, when you see comments in foreign languages, you need to have them translated first (by Google or a trustworthy member or a staff member who knows the language) to see if they are total spam or if they make good sense in their language. I've seen a lot of genuine Russian comments to Collin Moshman's videos, including numerous thanks and requests to have them translated into Russian faster (there are delays of several weeks or even months currently) and promises to earn a higher status to be able to watch them, that are less annoying even to non-Russian speakers than overt spam in pure English.
Foreign language comments emerge because, in non-English communities, the video section lists both English and native language videos and original English versions usually appear so much earlier than the translations that even those who speak English poorly (but, obviously, understand it better) watch the English originals as soon as they appear and express their gratitude. In particular, Collin has a huge cult following in the Russian community, which is reciprocated as he likes to review play of its members (I'm obviously a living proof 
).
In this foreign language case, you can delegate the disciplinary decision to the staff or members of the corresponding foreign community, as they understand perfectly what is said in such comments.
Thanks for understanding!
