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[Eko]

1. Thats part of the gig man.

[Shrike47]

2. I've noticed I'm being asked to jury repeatedly, sometimes on odd complaints.

I can't always figure out why there was an alert.

[Laffy Kat]

13. Same here. I thought the old system was easier to adjudicate.

Some of the posts now are so petty or I don't understand the issue in the first place.

[flor-de-jasmim]

27. Agreed, and there is no place for comments.

[Bettie]

32. I'm confused at times as to what the issue is as well

though, there are also times when it's pretty darned clear!

[DesertRat]

3. You can go to your account and turn off Willingness to serve on juries

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=myaccount

[question everything]

4. I know. I am willing to serve. This is part of being a member

but I wish that people will actually read the posts, the whole thread and, perhaps, will conclude that debating the supposedly offensive post can contribute more to our knowledge of events that just alerting.

[DesertRat]

7. Agreed. nt

[Ms. Toad]

9. There are things I've been debating and gently responding to for years - and frankly,

I'm done.

Using gay as an insult is one of them. It has been happening a lot lately, "justified" by Trump is so bad and so offensive that anything is fair game. Sorry using a vulnerable group as an insult is NEVER ok, and I'm going to alert rather than debate - because when I point out how offensive it is, all that happens is that it generates verbal abuse.

[beam me up scottie]

16. Agreed, implying that Scaramucci was gay pissed me off.

I expect better from liberals but I'm often sadly disappointed.

Using gay as a slur is wrong, maybe people didn't used to know that but they certainly do now. There's no excuse for it.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. I'm not convinced this entire membership is liberal.

Many are just middle of the roaders, some are RW'ers laying low, some are ignorant, some are trolls........

[beam me up scottie]

18. Good point.

I was being too generous. Thanks for the reminder, I need that every once in a while.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

19. :)

[Old Vet]

20. Well, Thats a pretty harsh statement IMO..................

[Drahthaardogs]

31. They referred to him as a "goomba" too.

And it stood and actually made it to the greatest page...

[beam me up scottie]

35. Someone here used that term?

My ex-mother-in-law liked to use ethnic slurs, she figured if it wasn't the n-word it was acceptable. As far as I know when it came to Italians she never used that g-word but was fond of the other along with the w-word.

[Drahthaardogs]

36. Oh yes, TWICE

And then stated in n another post why it was okay.

[Demsrule86]

25. I must say that 'adding to the discussion' is not a criteria according to TOS and you agreed upon

assuming jury duty to follow a specific set of rules. What you describe, "adding to the discussion" is opinion.If you feel this way, you should not serve. You know what they say everyone has an opinion...

[Bettie]

33. Context is important and

I think some people just go off of their reaction to something rather than read the posts it comes from.

[SCantiGOP]

5. What's your guilty rate?

I tend to pretty liberal (pun intended) with what people say and probably vote Hide in no more than 1/4 of the time.

[question everything]

6. Even less

Is someone is really offending someone else - yes. voting to hide. But complaining about a politician, a Democrat - hey, let's rebut.

This is what I miss from the old system - I could explain my vote. More often than not I would vote to keep the post and comment to rebut. This is what a discussion forum is. And, let's face it: while most of us have very strong opinions that we readily disperse here, I would like to think that we also are open to learn and, if needed, to change our opinion.

[SCantiGOP]

8. I like to argue but

I agree completely with your statement.

[samnsara]

30. same here.

[rufus dog]

10. Thanks for the reminder

I was busy after the election and switched to unwilling to serve. Switched back to willing!

I agree though, was getting hit up multiple times per day and 90% were lame alerts.

[Bradical79]

11. It means you need to call someone a liar

Lowers your chances of serving on a jury for awhile when you get a post hidden

[Warpy]

12. Hair trigger alerting is why DU needs to track who is doing the alerting

and how often. They might need to consider restricting people to one alert a day....or a week.

Most of the alerts are really, really stupid. A few have been technical violations that an adult would have let slide.

It has to be pretty egregious for me to hit "alert." Or I have to be half asleep in the wee hours.

[Jakes Progress]

14. Yep. I got a stalker.

He spends his hours combing my posts looking for anything to alert on. Just like they track how many hides you get, they need to track who is doing multiple alerts and about what. Sometimes the alerter just can't argue well and wants to hide behind alerts. I have looked at some threads that get alerts and think that I see bias - some people seeking to steer the dissent in the party with gaming the jury system.

(Or it could just be my tin-foil is on too tight.)

[WheelWalker]

15. You've got tin foil? You're so lucky!

[Demsrule86]

24. There are mechanisms already in place...read Ask the Administrators.

[Raine1967]

21. Trolls.

DU is not unlike twitter in that Trolls are on an uptick when things have an uptick.

[The Polack MSgt]

22. Once you rack up some hides

You get selected for fewer juries.

So i got that going for me. Which is nice.

[Demsrule86]

26. You can choose not to serve on juries anytime you want.

[Demsrule86]

23. That is not the job of a jury...you look at the rules period. You can opt out you know.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Some of them are pretty stupid too.

We have a few major authoritarians on this board.

[samnsara]

29. same here. i actually had a post removed and i challanged it.. it was a very innocent remark..

[Renew Deal]

34. Most alerts I've seen aren't worth hiding

Got one yesterday for a post about all of the alerts. It might be a post in this thread.