Recently, our bug reporting system (Jira) was hit with some spam reports and inappropriate comments, including offensive language and attempts at impersonating Lindens. The Jira system can email bug reporters when new comments are added to their reports, and so unfortunately the inappropriate comments also ended up in some Residents' inboxes.

We have cleaned up these messages, and continue to investigate ways to prevent this kind of spam in the future. We appreciate your understanding as we work to manage an open forum and mitigate incidents like this. 

In the short term, we have disabled some commenting features to prevent this from recurring. This means that you will not be able to comment on Jiras created by other Residents. We apologize for this inconvenience as we look into long term solutions to help prevent this type of event from occurring.