Sometimes I wonder

[coljam]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by zappaman (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Are the people who make up the DU juries the same people who would tattletale on you for talking when the teacher was out of the room?

People at this site need to take medicines to thicken their skins.

[cbayer]

1. Four posts hidden so far?

You are almost a gone pecan.

[coljam]

3. yes

but I still dont know why or what I said that was so bad

[cbayer]

4. I see that you were already banned at least once.

What part are you not getting?

BTW, suggesting that other members need to take medication in order to accommodate your violation of the community standards might be a clue as to why you get banned.

[coljam]

9. Sarcasm

[cbayer]

16. Are you saying you were banned for sarcasm? Here is a neat little tool to prevent that:

[MH1]

5. If you give links to the posts, we can probably explain it to you.

On the other hand, you are very close to those all being visible anyway.

[coljam]

6. Some of the jury decisions were 4-3

I think it should be unharmonious

[cbayer]

12. Unharmonious?

Well, it does appear to be unharmonious.

If a jury gets you once, you should probably pay attention. If it gets you over and over, then you should really pay attention.

OR, you could just blame it on the jury and say that they need to take medication in order to tolerate you.

[FSogol]

23. Here's a harmonious one for you

[pinboy3niner]

19. Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't

[cbayer]

21. I thought of a very off color response to this, but then thought better of it!

[randys1]

2. I dont know but instead of a jury system we should have EXTREME liberals ONLY

deciding when something has to be hidden

That person should default to not hiding unless the material is so extreme the site is in danger of being closed down...

Now if we are to keep righty out of here for sanity sake, that is a different problem...and yes I say keep the idiots out of here.

[arcane1]

7. No.

I've managed to never have a post hidden. It's actually quite easy.

But please, come to DU and tell us all how we should behave

[tblue37]

15. Same here. Ten years on DU, over 13,000 posts, and no hides. It

isn't that hard to be civil and reasonable.

[coljam]

20. I try to be on the edge

I want to make people think a little harder,many times using sarcasm.While I am far from a Mark Twain they banned him too .

[MineralMan]

8. Hmm...Really?

Methinks thou dost protest far too much.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. I wouldn't take it if I were you.

Do you know a good lawyer? If not,
I know a guy who is very excellent
at taking the bar. Small finder's fee.

[cbayer]

13. Taking the bar? I think that is exactly what is called for here.

[tblue37]

11. Sometimes the alerts are ridiculous. I often serve on juries,

and when an alert is ridiculous, I say so as I vote to leave the post alone.

But occasionally a post truly is a violation of the TOS or a nasty personal attack, and those are the ones I vote to hide.

I am probably more lenient than some jurors, because I don't like to see vigorous debate stifled, but some posts really are OTT. BTW, I do sometimes see real examples of alert stalking, and when I do, I also mention that in my explanation of why I vote to leave a post alone.

[KatyMan]

18. Same here, I'm often on juries

but rarely vote to hide unless it's a serious breach of TOS or a direct personal attack.

[arcane1]

26. Me too. I'd estimate that at least 2/3 of my juries are for stupid alerts

[betterdemsonly]

14. It is a way for closet neocons to take over a democratic board if

they do it as an organized gang.

[cbayer]

17. Sounds like a great novel!!

But it's fiction, for sure.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

22. Here's an edgy HIDE...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4866461

[arcane1]

27. Definitely far from a Mark Twain

[ZombieHorde]

24. If you don't want your posts hidden,

just try very hard to avoid posting personal attacks, right-wing rhetoric, extremely violent rhetoric (unless it's pro-war rhetoric -- grand scale extreme violence is totally cool), and pornography.

[LanternWaste]

25. Or the half-wits and the vulgar could learn civilized behavior and some manners...

"People at this site need to take medicines to thicken their skins..."

Or the half-wits and the vulgar could learn civilized behavior and some manners... six of one, half a dozen if the other.

However, I completely understand the need for the half-witted to point fingers when called on his behavior-- as I did the same thing when I was in third grade.

[coljam]

28. sarcasm

Thicken skins was sarcasm how could you not get that.

[zappaman]

29. Locking.

Disruptive Meta.