OT, Pete, but I wanted to report an interesting experience with the Civil Comments algorithm.  I usually just click "yes" to everything to get through, but I was just stopped with an ominous looking all-black screen with white lettering:  "Are you sure this comment is civil?"  Then, on the next comment, I was warned that I had deemed uncivil comments to be civil and had two more warnings left before my account was deleted (or restricted or censured something).

I feel like quoting the final line of Orwell's "1984" as Winston Smith has finally succumbed to the great omnipotent authority:

"He loved Big Brother."