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.