Times readers have spoken, and we’ve been listening: You want the chance to comment on more stories, and you want your comments approved more quickly.

Most of all, you want us to maintain the civility that makes this such a special place to contribute comments.

Achieving each of these goals was not economically feasible, until now.

The New York Times is partnering with Google Jigsaw to create a new moderation system that will help us review incoming comments based on decisions our moderators have made in the past. Our moderators will continue to protect these discussions, but once this new system is launched, we will have robot helpers.

Comments on Times stories are moderated by a team of 14 people known as the community desk. Together, they review around 11,000 comments each day for the approximately 10 percent of Times articles that are open to reader comment.

To help illustrate how our moderation works and how a new system might help, we have arranged for you to take a Times moderation test.