Please stop.<p>People love to imagine that their uncivil and unsubstantive comments have value, and therefore that we must be against them for ideological reasons (e.g. political correctness). But that is self-flattery. It&#x27;s really just that such comments lower the signal-noise ratio.<p>Flip all the ideological bits and none of this changes. For example, replace &quot;right-wing&quot; with &quot;left-wing&quot; upthread and that comment would be just as uncivil; replace &quot;the PC crowd&quot; in your own comments with whatever the opposite construct is and they would be just as unsubstantive.