Comment on Commenting

I know that many of you have been, ahem, frustrated with aspects of the commenting system here on Wired. I have to admit that Disqus looked to be a little more robust than it actually is when I first tested it. I am as new with Disqus as many of you are, so I don't know what all the tricks to get it to behave as we'd like might be - and the Disqus system is set up across all of Wired, so a change would be across not only just Eruptions, but also everyplace else on Wired. Now, that is a bit of a non-answer for your problems, however, I can say that improves will be made after an upgrade of Wordpress occurs across the site in the near future. In the meantime, I apologize for the problems and hope that we can make Disqus work as well as ...