Mr. Lewis reaped the anger of whomever flagged my original comment to his. Whenever one feels "ganged-up-on", they either whimper and take it, or they come out snarling. I have fought gang members, of real gangs, several at once a couple of times, all by myself. I am well schooled in "Two-By-Four and Tire Iron".
I'm not a target, and several trolls in this section have learned that to be true. Flag me for no good reason and I will be all over you. And my companies advertising dollars have been going to anyone besides ADN, because of Civil Comments mindless algorithms.
At the present state of the art, algorithms can supplement, but not substitute for hands-on human management. Civil Comments is trying to make money on the cheap, as they are offering their services to many publications, but their revenue stream won't support enough human monitors to do the job right.
Their automated "messages and warnings" tend to annoy, increasing commentators frustrations with "the mindless system".