I’m afraid I have no choice but to shut down the comments section temporarily. It pains me to do so, and we’ve tried everything else first, but at this point, it may be the only thing I can do to keep the site online right now.
I had really hoped to avoid this and I’ll try to re-open comments as soon as I possibly can. My apologies. (It hurts me more than it hurts you…)
Update (7:18pm): They’re back on, and with any luck, I’ll never have to turn them off again.