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MineralMan

(151,100 posts)
7. Well, one of the surest way to get a post alerted
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:35 PM
Jun 2014

and sent to a jury is to call someone a name or make a personal attack. Such posts often get hidden by juries. Most other posts don't get hidden, unless they're way far to the right in their content.

It's easy to avoid having a post hidden. Just don't call people names or attack them on a personal level. In a discussion, if you disagree with what a person writes, disagree with what was written, rather than attacking the person who wrote it.

If you write "You are an idiot," your post is likely to be hidden by a jury. However, if you write, "What you wrote is idiotic," you probably will not have your post hidden.

Expand those examples to other situations, and address the content of the post, rather than the poster, and you'll be fine almost certainly.

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Threats of violence, homophobia, racism, sexism. If it's relatively mild, or ambiguous, I'll ask msanthrope Jun 2014 #1
I think a good reason to alert is someone using General Discussion in lieu of Meta. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2014 #2
Meta ...had to look that one up randys1 Jun 2014 #4
Misspelled words. Poor sentence construction. Dumb user names. randome Jun 2014 #3
What a coincidence! pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #5
You're not going to pin that on me, niner! randome Jun 2014 #8
Spelling police, grammar nazis pintobean Jun 2014 #9
What? Speak up! I think you're on my Ignore list! randome Jun 2014 #10
I report Meta in GD. eom MohRokTah Jun 2014 #6
Well, one of the surest way to get a post alerted MineralMan Jun 2014 #7
I think alerts should be very rare. hamsterjill Jun 2014 #11
Some alert on posts that hurt the feewings of DU's teabagger and Republican members pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #12
Probably a strong 4th amendment/FDR Liberal who forgot he was on DU and not Discussionist. FSogol Jun 2014 #13
Whoa!!! hamsterjill Jun 2014 #18
Wow, someone didnt like your version of the truth, i.e. the truth randys1 Jun 2014 #24
LOL, it's a shame we can't nominate alerts for DUzy's Brother Buzz Jun 2014 #35
The "sneaky" attacks PowerToThePeople Jun 2014 #14
I only ever alerted on one post I was having a bad day and didn't know the guy was joking with me Arcanetrance Jun 2014 #15
Can't be bothered. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #16
I cannot alert. Its against the street code. nilesobek Jun 2014 #22
If someone posts something bigoted or racist, etc Marrah_G Jun 2014 #17
I report posts when people ask me why I report posts. AngryAmish Jun 2014 #19
Bigotry, bigoted or right-wing sources being used to attack Democrats, and personal attacks... SidDithers Jun 2014 #20
Agree with jury SoP and doing away with hosts. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #28
I've never alerted on a post. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #21
Then you're not spending enough time here! randome Jun 2014 #26
I've never reported a post, even when directly insulted. If I'm threatened, that's another matter. ancianita Jun 2014 #23
I only report on myself...sometimes good snooper gets mad at bad snooper snooper2 Jun 2014 #25
1) spam 2) obvious teabaggery/wingnuttery/ RW talking points/trolling LadyHawkAZ Jun 2014 #27
I will alert on racism, sexism, homphobia, xenophobia ... and the like etherealtruth Jun 2014 #29
Chuggo music videos. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #30
How dare you?!?!! Iggo Jun 2014 #32
Chuggo indeed had a sad. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #33
Oh, jeez. Iggo Jun 2014 #34
META! Iggo Jun 2014 #31
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