I’m getting scattered complainst about the difficulty of commenting. All I can say is that I Have Done Nothing. I haven’t banned anyone in weeks, haven’t changed anything. Typepad "upgraded" last weekend, and perhaps there are glitches related to that. I know it is trying to be quite aggressive regarding comment spam, and perhaps frequent commenters are getting caught in that net. I have no idea.

But one cautionary note: It might be a good idea to get in the practice of quickly saving your comments to the clipboard before you push the button to post. Comments have been tragically disappeared after much effort, and that’s a good way to prevent total loss.