Sometimes it quotes the post responded to sometimes not - seems to be no consistency? Shouldn't be quoting anything by default.

Responses are  not layered properly which  makes them hard to follow. Needs a proper tree structure as you can find on most every other forum system.

Sorta is a poor choice - indiscernible or similar would be better. 

The civil portion is simply naive to think users won't use it to dismiss comments that are left or right leaning counter to their views.  I do it myself.