To the contrary, that is what Disqus attempted to do, rather miserably.

The approach Civil Comments appears to take is two-pronged:

There is an algorithm that attempts to detect certain inherently uncivil posting and filter them without posting.

Those that pass the algorithm post and then are “crowd sourced” to other posters for rating as to civility.

Since this is a new process, it is still a work in progress.

Incivility, as I see it, consists of direct attacks on persons and their beliefs: "You are a *&^%$".

Since this is the National Catholic Reporter, I also rate direct attacks on the Church as uncivil - e.g. referring to a Catholic as a “mackerel snapper”, as well as juvenile attacks on the Church’s hierarchy - e.g. “Bishop so-and-so is a fascist”.

They will respond to reasonable inquiries - “can you give me some insight into why this post: (text quotation) was considered uncivil?”, which is a heck of a lot more than Disqus ever did.