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In reply to the discussion: Spanking Child With Wooden Spoon Not Child Abuse, Says State Court [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)that means all personal attacks are hidden except those that are apologia for or openly advocating beating children, rape or murder.
That's what the jury system is and Skinner has pretty much upheld the idea that each person can enforce their idea of what is community standards.
I am using the system exactly the way it was intended.
Now, I think the jury system is problematic exactly because our standards are different and without a central administration enforcing a standard for moderation, we are going to get wildly divergent jury results. For instance, it's pretty clear to me that some people hide nothing. I think you could try to take out a contract on someone's life in a post and some folks here would not vote to hide it. On the other side, it's also clear that some people vote to hide when they simply disagree with the poster or the poster is in the wrong clique.
But I also would be remiss if I didnt admit that the jury system is working better than I thought that it would. Then again, that isnt exactly high praise since I thought it would fail utterly. I still think the mod system was better and could have been improved.