I've been commenting on the online Post site since they fired it up over 15 years ago.  The civility of comments has gone straight into the toilet since 2010 or so.  It's almost as bad as an unmoderated forum, with people using special punctuation or spelling to sneak obscenities past the algorithms.  The level of discourse is totally unworthy of a national newspaper of record -- and only getting worse.

Now if you'd cited the NYT I could agree with you somewhat, except they keep their comments pages civil by restricting who can comment.  I prefer a setup where anyone can weigh in.  But in no way should the SA go to a system anything like the Post's.  The civilcomments system has proven to work great on their "online competition's" website and I'm delighted to see it here.

But I can certainly see why a particular group of SA commenters who grossly abused the old system will hate this one.  One of the main goals of civilcomments is to get rid of abusive trolls, and I bet it'll work!