We have software to detach the comments and do mechanical things like that, but finding ways to vary the message about civility seems important to me, so I force myself to do those by hand. Sometimes I throw in variations to counter tedium, even with the idea that it might have entertainment value... though that is dangerously easy to overdo.<p>There&#x27;s a design point here too. After two years, these comments have shown themselves to be partly formulaic and the sort of thing that could benefit from software support. I&#x27;d like that software support to be something available to users, not just moderators. If there were a way for users to convey to each other that a comment could be edited to better follow the guidelines, that&#x27;d be great, because we (actually just I in this respect, since I&#x27;m the only one currently posting moderation comments) would no longer be the bottleneck. The long-term vision for HN is to make it a self-regulating system.