We’ve made two adjustments to the comments policy.
1) Commenters no longer need to be registered to post, as long as they abide by the rules
2) All comments for posts that allow them, must be made within a week of that post. After a week, the comments feature for the post will be closed.
3) Anyone making personal comments about any blog author will be summarily banned, permanently. Any attempt to come back with an alias will be detected and dealt with. Your privilege to comment here comes with the responsibility of behaving with some decorum. Obviously, a little bit of discretion will be exercised.
Subject to the rules, we continue to operate the forum, where all comers are welcome. There is a link to the forum in the menu.