ISO comments on comments

I’m still learning to drive the new car here in WordPress/disqus land, and there’s more flexibility to it than I’ve yet learned to navigate.

So consider this an open thread on comments and the comment system here. What’s good/better with the comment system and structure? What’s bad/not working? I don’t want to lose any voices from the ongoing conversation or, worse, to silence/shut out anyone who wants to participate and is having trouble doing so here.

So please let me know what’s working and what’s not and I’ll see what we can do about changing the latter and reinforcing the former.

Thanks, and if you’re having any problems, please bear with me while I try to work them out.