The G&M Civil Comments system is an anti-free-speech, thought-control, group-think, coerced behaviour modification tool. You get browbeaten with a dire warning of account restriction/expulsion if you do not agree with "the system" that a given comment is "uncivil," when in your opinion it may be pithy and to the point. A box pops up and admonishes you to re-think and reconsider, presumably along vapid, politically-correct party lines - you have to pledge fealty to the "community standards" by clicking "I agree to review fairly." If not, you're "restricted" and you cannot proceed. This is marginally better than the trend to no comment section at all, but not by much.