Comment Glitch

For unknown reasons beyond my control (and that is not the fault of any commenters, no matter how verbose and off-topics your comments may have been!), Discriminations is currently experiencing a Comment Glitch. Will try to get it straightened out, whatever it is, ASAP.

UPDATE [5:15PM]

My hosting service, Hosting Matters, says that it has turned off comments because of a large amount of spam that has been coming my way, and that it will turn them back on when I “take the necessary spam prevention measures.”

Since I have already taken all the prevention measures I can — namely, installing MT-Blacklist (which now has about 2500 blacklisted URLs), I’m not sure what else I can do. Either they’ll turn them back on promptly or I’ll find another service.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE II [7:55PM]

HostMatters redeemed! Shortly after my last update (but too soon to be the result of it) HostMatters technical support wrote:

The disabling of comment scripts is a temporary measure, designed to prevent comment spammers from crashing a server by using up all available memory. The size/traffic of your weblog has absolutely nothing to do with anything, as a single perl script can bring a server down if it is hammered at often enough. Comment script re-enabled

So, once again you should feel free to comment away. (But not so free that you engage in ad hominem attacks, stray too far off point, introduce whole new debates (such as debating social security reform on a blog devoted to discrimination, although I admit I invited that by quoting George will comparing “Fix It, Don’t Nix It” to “Mend It, Don’t It.” Etc.).