Wouldn't it be nice if Civil Beat itself would follow the advice in this column?  This comment will be a test case.  Editor Eppler says my comments are now being handled by the same screening "algorithm" applied to everyone else; and of course, also subject to the same crowdsourced censorship whereby other commenters can judge whether a comment I write is "civil."  So let's see whether this particular comment gets past the "algorithm" and survives the scrutiny of other readers.  Or is the fact that "Conklin" is the author of a submitted comment one of the elements in the "algorithm" that causes the automatic banning of it?