comment problems

I know that we're still experiencing problems with comments here (and at other mozillazine-hosted weblogs) and kerz says he's going to look into it as soon as he has some free time. I apologize for the problem but it's not my fault. It's not kerz' problem either, I suspect. My guess is that it's a problem with the movable type throttling which doesn't handle multiple blogs across different time zones or something like that.

Phil Rignalda has a possible solution if this is indeed the problem. It might also be possible for kerz to just disable the throttle, though the movable type people haven't made that easy and it may entail solving the "throttling easterners" problem and then setting the throttle to zero.

Apparently, we're not the only ones experiencing this problem. A quick search of the MT support forums turns up these discussions on the problem: Turning off throttling?, Comment throttling woes, and Comment Submission Error, Possible Commenting Flaw (Bug).

For now, if you can't get through, send me an email and let me know if it's cool to post your comment to the blog and I'll try to get your comment into the comments section (though often times I can't comment either, but I could hijack another comment and edit it to include multiple comments :-)

update: It sounds like Kerz has made a few changes to hopefully help the problem with commenting. Let me know if things are better (or worse, or no different). If you can't get through in comments (things are worse or no different) please email me. Thanks.