I have just had a quick look at the Civil Comments User Guide on their website, and on one of the pages they explain that: "Our algorithms, collectively named "Abby the CivilBot," examines these votes to make sure they aren't biased or allowing in spam or abuse". 

Then another page says: "CivilBot pools and analyzes everyone's votes, doing thousands of comparisons across users every day, to determine what are "good" votes and what are "biased" votes. Right now, it's a little overly sensitive; we're currently tweaking it to be more lenient."

I think it is a little unsettling to find that we are beginning to live in a world where human beings are controlled by robots instead of the reverse (having the robots under human control).

It seems we are living in a sort of dystopia.