Folks, sorry for the difficulties we're having right now. Someone is currently engaging in what's commonly (if indelicately) known as "crapflooding", where one person (often posting, as in this case, under several assumed names) post message after message, often attacking a site's administrators - as in this case. We know that the vast (vast) majority of you don't want otherwise interesting or entertaining discussions hijacked with this inanity, so we are trying to restore normality as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we ask that you please not feed the trolls. Posting to certain threads has also been disabled for the time being.

If anyone's posts get deleted, particularly if they are responding to the crapflooder, we apologize but we are trying to keep the site as normal as possible during this interruption, which may include deleting responses.