text: Dear NCR and CIVIL operatives. It seems to me that civility cannot be defined solely by vocabulary, phrases and/or single posts. We seem to be experiencing a significant increase in seemingly concerted hijacking by coteries of disrupters, and individuals of persistent evidence of either ill will or obdurate attempts to exclude legitimate discussion. Many of the posts themselves might warrant a "sort of" by those of us who are sort of tolerant and, be given the benefit of the doubt as "civil" individually. Taken in their successive, persistent and even strategic context they are an attempt to further an agenda that seems clearly antithetical to minimum standards of civil discourse. Something more is required.