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117. What I have seen in the situation you describe, is someone posting an opinion a little different

than the prevailing opinion of the group in question, and a pile on enthuses, each piler-on twisting the intent and meaning of anything the target poster posts, in an effort to find something that will stick in an alert to get the one or more of target's posts hidden. Thereby locking them out of the thread and racking up another hide, contributing to a forced vacation. One of their tactics is accusing their target of doing what they themselves are doing. Doesn't matter whether the target is guilty or not.
I have been on juries where this is obvious and have received jury results on some of my own posts, where the alert comments had nothing to do with the post in question or of anything I actually said or meant.
It is the same people doing this, over and over again. The rest of DU is getting fed up and thus the reason for this OP and thread in the first place.

It is bullying, plain and simple.