Suggestion - If you are a fairly active DUer, use your jury blacklist

[MineralMan]

271. Aside from an occasional individual vote that tips the balance,

I doubt very much that there's any way to game the Alert system. Statistically, it just doesn't make any sense. I do have people on my Jury Blacklist, but only after repeated replies to posts I've made that indicate some sort of personal animosity aimed in my direction. I doubt it has made any differences, or has anything to do with my lack of hidden posts.

I chalk that record up to not calling people names or making personal attacks and not posting offensive or bigoted stuff on DU.

Now, I suspect that some people have MineralMan on their own Jury Blacklists. In a couple of cases, I'm sure of it. However, that's a waste of that feature, since my policy is to leave juries where I'm being asked to judge someone's posts with whom I've contended in the past or who I just dislike. I leave the jury, unless the post is fine, in which case, I vote to leave it. I have very specific standards for voting to hide a post, and they pertain only to direct and ugly personal attacks, bigotry, and spamming. I apply those same standards for alerting, so I alert rarely, and rarely vote to hide a post.

So, putting people on Jury Blacklists is a crap shoot. Most frequent posters on DU don't use jury duty as a means of getting back at people, I'm sure. It's much more fun to engage them in threads.

So, I think you're probably incorrect in your assumptions, but I do have people on my Jury Blacklist, too, just in case.