text: <SO is it your usual practice to rate comments that you don't agree with as "uncivil?">
  Not at all.  I rate most comments as "civil", whether I agree with them or not.  So much so that at one point, in an earlier incarnation of Civil Comments, I received a caution that my participation could be suspended because I was allowing too many things to pass.  You are obviously not a serious thinker or writer; a lot of what you post skates at the edge of civility, hovering between "uncivil" and merely boorish. In the absence of blatantly scatological language, I pass most comments as Civil. But, of course, I'm a liberal.