Jimbo,

  I rarely censor any comment. Only the very rare, very odd comment that's hate speech.
  Commenting here for almost 12 years, that's the way I've always been. I've known intuitively that once people start deleting comments for this reason and that reason, soon they would be deleting comments that simply make a strong case against their opinion. And that's precisely what's happened. the fun and the humour have been sucked out of this website. There are many things in the comments worse than incivility.