The Alert abuse continues!

[savalez]

kstewart33's post was hidden 5 to 2.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107122223

Silly season continues.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I'll be so happy when the nomination is settled. I'm sick of hearing Hillary and other Democrats

being trashed on this board.

[book_worm]

2. Ok, I get that as long as a primary race is on that people can advocate for a candidate

other than Hillary. But at this point there should be a rule about calling any of our candidates liars or advocating for not voting for the democratic nominee. I don't see why the administrators aren't a little tougher on some of this--and people can still advocate for Bernie and Hillary to there hearts content.

[IamMab]

9. They're basically placating hostage-takers, only in this case the hostage is the site.

DU's admins must think, or know, how much traffic the hatemongers bring, and have capitulated before that traffic and its potential ad revenue. But whether they leave today or leave in a few months, they're going to be leaving nonetheless. They're not here because they're Democrats anyway, so perhaps DU should rip the bandaid off sooner rather than later. Otherwise, it will be genuine long-time readers who decide to head for the exits first. Then DU will lose even more traffic than it would have just by dropping the hammer on a few angry trolls.

[KittyWampus]

12. they won't be leaving. They'll simply start attack Clinton the day she is inaugurated.

[savalez]

15. That's what I think.

Yes it will be against the TOS to that but what will stop them?

[fred v]

3. GDP is like the old Soviet Union

But not quite as free.

[IamMab]

4. OP needs to alert on the Jury results, and flag it as violating Statement of Purpose.

Maybe the Admins need to be overloaded with jury flags until they're motivated to do something about it.

[Tarc]

5. We get wins sometimes too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511881955

Though it is still rather sad that 2 people think it's ok to call the party's presumptive nominee a "war criminal".

[Cha]

8. Good!

[Cha]

6. Thanks for keeping it alive, savelez..

I was just on a jury from a trigger happy alerter.. that I could tell he didn't have anything better to do than wasting our time tattle tailing on a Hill supporter.

[Fla Dem]

7. Stalkers, grifters, fakers and possers.

[shenmue]

10. Do not blaspheme the Sanders

[NurseJackie]

11. Here's the thing ... they're feeling powerless over a situation they have NO CONTROL over. But ...

... on the other hand, the act of alerting (and likely winning) gives them a sense of victory and helps to validate their sense of "injustice" that Bernie is not going to be the nominee.

Thankfully, the forced "time-outs" are gone, and the only penalty is being less likely to participate in juries (which in and of itself only contributes to the lopsidedness of the jury make-up) thus perpetuating and increasing the ease in which the process can be abused.

Other than SOP violations, I don't alert any more. It's a waste of time.

Silly season continues.

It certainly does.

[Cha]

17. There's another penalty that you're lucky you're not aware of.. and that's FFR limbo..

I have several friends on it. It's when you get two hides within 24 hours and we get Flagged For Review.. And, you can't post or get PMs.. nothing.

It's usually a day or two before Skinner let's them off... but my friends have been in Limbo for weeks.. they can't post on DU because the majority got them Hides and for the most part they were not against TOS.

I want to ask Skinner about that .. it's not fair.

[NurseJackie]

18. So "Flagged for Review" statuses are being ignored? That doesn't seem fair.

[Cha]

19. In a lot of cases yes... especially the way the hides were gotten.. and I know you

know what I mean by that.

Luckily there are other Hillary sites for them to post on.. but they're being unfairly censored on DU..

[johnp3907]

13. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107122402

[Cha]

20. thanks john~

[revmclaren]

14. Alerted to the Admins about the Anti Clinton post.

Wrote this to admins: Pure hate for the Democratic front runner. Poster only here to disrupt and bash Democrats. Has stated she will be here only til Clinton gets the nomination so trying to do as much damage as possible til then.


Hiding kstewart33's post just proves what we have been saying is going on.

It will get better soon. June coming fast.

[GusBob]

16. word is

What I am seeing on other forums: this site is becoming the "anti Hillary, anti-democratic" forum

their words, not mine, from more than one source

cant disagree with that at all

[savalez]

21. I don't doubt that.

I don't know if you saw this take on that. Here it is just in case you haven't:
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/4/22/digital-reconstruction-evaluating-progressive-sites-in-the-wake-of-a-hillary-clinton-nomination

[kstewart33]

22. I don't understand the reasoning behind hiding my post.

I view the administrators as an appeals court. If the jury votes against my post, I should have the right to appeal and to encourage others if it increases the probability that they will take the appeal seriously. The final decision is in the hands of the administrators.

Don't see anything wrong with that, especially with the particular post that I alerted.