Comment: "How is it that the site is purposed to inspire civility (I assume honest motives), but then you force the reader to judge statements taken out of context?"

So much this.

The "crowd moderation" system is pretty broken and useless, for precisely this reason. I've taken to just clicking "Sorta" on the "good comment" question and "yes" on the "civil" question (unless the comment is clearly abusive without context).

In other words, it's pointless.