George, I've seen that episode. I promise we aren't going to devolve into some points-based oligarchy, mostly because there are no points to be had. Users are only rated to make sure they aren't trying to game the system. Each comment lives or dies on its own civility.

There will be no roving gangs of liberals or conservatives attempting to censor each other. It's just a system that will learn partly from the ratings, partly from Civil Comments' algorithm and partly from the way we train it using the comments that are submitted. And we will, like we always have been, training it to be as apolitical as possible.