text: Civil Comments has much bigger fish to fry than NCR.
  
  NPR, for example, would be a potential client.
  
  "Blocking" has proven to lead to exactly what it led to at NCR:
  
  - conversion of a public discussion group into a platform for multiple private conversations
  
  - a collapse of civil discourse
  
  - a tendency to speak of the "blocked" in the third person
  
  - in this instance an effective banning of Catholics and an influx not of progressive Catholics but of agnostics, atheists, "Mahayana" theologists, and so on right out to anti-Catholics.
  
  Civil Comments is a business. There is no money in replicating Disqus' mistakes.
  
  National Catholic Reporter is trying to present as an alternative Catholic media, there is no advantage to having its public face present a motley crew of opponents of Catholicism.
  
  I would happy to provide examples from the Disqus archives.
  
  Yes, "we had really thoughtful discussions" ... synoptic, few participants, and outright hostility towards contrary opinions.