Daniel,
After thinking about what you wrote in your email to me (for which I thank you!), and seeing what Northstar wrote (knowing I wasn’t alone in seeing what I was seeing helps 🙂 ) I’m going to re-implement Disqus on the blog – it may take a bit more time for me to configure to my satisfaction, and it may not be what I’d really like it to be (something that integrates with the WP users table), but it will likely increase the number of commenters. My hope is that the issue of comment spam never rears its head.
Thanks for all the work on the plugin!