Hey @benfrain. It’s great that you’ve built up a strong community that are keen to chat about your writing work. However not everyone needs a commenting system built into their blog and we do our best to keep Ghost as lean as possible, which is why we recommend using other platforms to add commenting to blogs. There’s plenty of options to choose from:
https://ghost.org/integrations/community/
There’s also a good discussion going on here that you might want to check out: Native comments system - #6 by toddbirchard