I had posts removed

[Tndem615]

From a thread regarding the Georgia Floyd guilty thread. Does anyone know how I can get in touch with someone about this? I remain respectful as always, I just want some guidance from someone in authority about this, and I can’t find anyone. Many thanks.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Georgia?

[MisterNiceKitty]

24. lol I thought the same thing

[Ms. Toad]

2. Check your Inbox.

Whenever a post is removed, you have the opportunity to appeal.

Although your profile says that none of your posts have been removed. Are you sure you hit post?

[USALiberal]

3. There should be a link on the email to challenge it. Nt

[panader0]

4. Try Ask the Administrators. On the main list on the left.

[Ms. Toad]

6. ATA is extremely limited now,

and does not include inquiries about remove posts.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. In the direct message alerting you to the removal there's a link to protest ...

I'm here to tell ya ... it usually falls on deaf ears. That, or my argument fails. Not sure which

It's not a big deal unless you get like 3 of them removed (depending on the reason, can be less for real bad stuff).

[MerryHolidays]

14. Hi, Mr. Lebowski

You're usually dead on with your posts! However, on this one, I have to say the Admins have been great. I have had 2 posts removed by the jury during my time formally on DU (about 4.5 years). In both instances, I appealed to the Admins: the first one was reinstated in a matter of minutes and the second one was reinstated after the weekend in which the ban occurred.

I am a HUGE fan of DU's moderation, from the jury, forum moderators, the MIR team (I've served a few tours of duty), and/or appeals (to Admins or moderators). I am increasingly impressed with DU's moderation system, which I think is really sophisticated and fair, and keeps our discussions on track.

I'm not a suck-up, but I'm just impressed!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

19. 'Falling on deaf ears' is not necessarily a criticism other than ...

saying that I never heard back, and my post never came back.

Perhaps my argument was 'heard', but still failed

[MerryHolidays]

21. Surprising, since your posts are uniformly excellent

Regardless, you are MUCH appreciated!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

23. Well thank you ... nice of you to say. Let's just say I'm not always entirely 'doctrinaire' when it

comes to my views on certain things that some of my fellow liberals ... let's say ... hold a bit more dearly than I do?

And sometimes my attempts at humor are apparently not quite obvious ENOUGH for some.

Also, I might be drunk sometimes

Our moderation here is great, I've had just a couple of removals I'm still bitter about over the many years

[Treefrog]

33. "Also, I might be drunk sometimes."!!! Ain't that true for a good number of us here?

You made me spit out my beer dammit! Still laughing!

[True Dough]

27. My experience is different from yours

Appealed twice and never heard a thing in response. Stopped appealing.

Recently, I posted a joke wherein Donald Trump was the punchline, but it also made mention of Bill Clinton in rather derogatory manner. I figured DUers would see past that because Trump was the butt of the joke. Nope. Someone cried foul and the post was removed for bashing a Democratic figure.

If you are thinking, "Well, those are the rules, move on," I suppose that would have been easier to do if I hadn't checked what was trending on DU several hours later and saw that the very same joke was reposted by another forum member and it had 40-some likes and was moving up the ranks briskly.

Anyway, I have only had a handful of posts removed over almost 5 years on the site and I just tend to shrug it off now.

[WarGamer]

7. Admins have been EXTREMELY helpful to me

Twice I caught a hide for posting straight up FACTS and TWICE admins overruled it cuz... facts.

[Hoyt]

8. Are you sure? You would have been notified if removed.

[Niagara]

9. It's George Floyd, not Georgia Floyd.

If you misspelled his name on a previous thread, it's possible that someone alerted thinking that you were a troll. However, on your profile page I don't see any hidden posts counted against you.

[Yonnie3]

11. Your profile doesn't show that any of your posts have been removed

I do see that you have replies in a thread in which a post has been removed. If that's the case then you have nothing to be concerned about.

[mobeau69]

12. I did too. LOL

A regional dialect spelling attempt did me in.

Like sarcasm, it’s only appreciated by a few.

No matter what, many just don’t get it!

[Bev54]

13. Are you sure the post was posted?

Twice today I got kicked out and had to sign back in when I went to REC or comment (I am usually always signed in) so not sure if it is something technical.

[Spazito]

15. Your profile doesn't show any posts removed....

Here's what your profile says:

35 total posts: +0
61 days of membership: +6
20 or more posts in the last 90 days: +20
Not a Star member: +0
0 posts hidden in 90 days: -0

I bolded where it shows 0 posts hidden.

To see your profile, scroll to the top of the page, click on "my profile" and it will show you this info.

What thread did you post in? Do you see 'Post removed' where your posts were?

[Kaleva]

16. As mentioned by others, your profile says you haven't had any posts removed

[uppityperson]

17. Do you mean this thread, the OP was removed but yours are there

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15357702

[hlthe2b]

28. Oh, yeah. The one with the derivation/conjugation of an ugly Spanish slang verb--

[uppityperson]

29. Is that what it was?

[pwb]

18. I think they had some posts removed from a previous O P ?

Wondering what happened.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

20. I consider the OCCASIONAL removed post to be a bit of a badge of honor ...

But I've always been kinda incorrigible, so there's that.

[jcgoldie]

25. I alerted on this just to honor you...

Just kidding

[Politicub]

26. You're new here. Maybe it would help to take some time to get

to know the community.

It’s pretty hard to get posts removed with the jury system in place. Not sure what you posted, but you may want to think about it so you can contribute to the discourse in a constructive way.

[tonedevil]

36. LOL /nt

[MineralMan]

30. According to your profile, you have zero hidden posts.

So, that's confusing.

[greenjar_01]

31. ...

[intheflow]

34. ...

[CrackityJones75]

32. Georgia Floyd Guilty thread.

Uhhhhhh... Really?

[Silent3]

35. My previous experience with removed posts...

...which is fortunately very limited, is that appeals are either granted (never for me), or met with stony silence.

Apparently no one will bother to discuss why they thought a post should have been removed. You either get your post back, or you feel like you might as well be talking to a brick wall.

Other posters claim to have had better experience with the system, but they're all the "big names" on DU, so apparently the most popular posters get better treatment.

[tonedevil]

37. My experience exactly. /nt

[Demsrule86]

38. You can appeal posts. There are instructions with the mail. This is not the right forum forum for

this. You should delete this and put it in the community forum. People get hides...I checked your profile. It looks as if the hide was removed. You have 0 posts hidden.