This is all pretty amazing to me.  In the time the new system has been in place, I have seen plenty of posts I disagreed with, but very few that were specifically uncivil. I red flagged one post because it was clearly commercial spam, and I have marked only one or two as not being civil. Disagreement is not uncivil unless it stoops to "argumentum ad hominum", direct insults or threats, or foul language.  

This forum does provide a way to counter the clearly liberal bias of the editorial staff, and the Hawaiian political majority which makes the existence of the forum somewhat amazing in itself...that CB allows it.  If it goes away or gets modified to require ID of the poster, I go away.  

There is a long and noble tradition in America, of pseudonymous posts critical of the establishment, going back to Benjamin Franklin.  I do hope that CB will continue that tradition even if certain posters get upset about disagreement with their positio