It's gotten worse in the last hour or so. Someone's modified the worm so that simply looking at a page with the comment will cause you to start replying to all

It's gotten worse in the last hour or so. Someone's modified the worm so that simply looking at a page with the comment will cause you to start replying to all the posts on that page. Coupled with the fact that reddit has the "red/orange envelope" feature, whereby users are notified if somebody replies to their posts, and the fact that users tend to watch for said envelope in anticipation, the site seems to be melting down.