I found I had to green light more than CNET.com so there's that.
I've alerted your post so you can get a personal reply from a very nice person I know. But for forum issued, try the Forum Feedback forum as it's a place I know he checks all the time.
Me? Just a mod, I don't run this joint.
I am unable to view the Comments discussion forum for the Cheapskate column, but I have noted similar problems across other CNET features.
This occurs despite having greenlighted CNET.com in all ad blockers, and having made cookie exceptions in the Firefox browser for the CNET.com domain.
I've exhausted all the suggested fixes that CNET offers.
Something else is causing this problem.
I have witnessed multiple cycles over the years in which CNET features such as comment forums, or video display, work, and then they don't work, and then they work for a while, and then they don't.
The one thing that is consistent is that CNET pays insufficient attention to QA consistency testing while failing to provide adequate advisories to site readers.
We shouldn't have to waste our time searching the haystack of "user forums" for answers that CNET staff should be providing proactively.
By the way, we're advised to search these forums without benefit of a site search tool. Ponder that to conclude just how much CNET cares about providing adequate site support.

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