What's with the glee over another DUer's wife's (possible) suffering?

[cui bono]

255. I honestly wish juries were done away with and there was very strict moderation.

Any and all name calling gets hidden post and time out of a day or week or something after a couple warnings. Third time you get a time out.

Same with any taunting posts that have no content, posts that are just about another poster, the piling on posts.

Basically, if you're not discussing the issue and it's about another DUer the post is hidden and you get a warning. End of story. Also if it's a general snide remark about "other DUers".

I'm sure we're all guilty of this to some degree, some more than others, so we'd all have to modify our behavior and watch our "tongues". But if everyone posted as if they were having a conversation with their colleague the tone would be much better. As it is it's turned into cliqueish behavior. There are "teams", which is exactly the problem outside DU as well. That shouldn't happen if we are to really work together to accomplish anything or to try to figure out how to accomplish something. And presumably we on DU all pretty much want the same end result.

I think it would help get this place back to where it used to be where the comments were informative. But the jury system and MIRT do not work properly to avoid this problem.