Really?! So now even the Rude Pundit is thrown under the bus by DUers?

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93. It's revelatory of an issue of the jury system.

If you rec or comment on a thread, you cannot be seated on a jury within that thread. Okay, that seems straightforward...but it creates a problem.

Those 141 recommenders and however many commentators almost certainly represent a widely-held consensus that probably even represents a majority of active DU posters. Their standard would thus be the community standard. Not one of them can be seated on that jury. This is a consistent issue with long threads or popular threads.

On the most popular posts, those that have the widest plaudits and engagement...you end up with a jury pool that is rather small and which by its nature is predisposed to a kind of Minoritarianism tyranny; the pool of people on popular threads eligible to serve on juries within those threads are by their nature increasingly oppositional to the majority of posters in the thread...the larger and more popular a thread grows, the smaller the jury pool becomes and the more likely any jury becomes of being populated by those that do not reflect a community standard.

People here are prone to blaming "PC run amok" or "fringe groups" or "trolls"...the issue is none of the above--it's self-non-selection bias. By not posting in the thread because they're disgusted by it or do not support the premise of it, they become more likely to be selected for a jury on it as more posters join the thread. The more out of the mainstream and community standard you are, the more likely it is to happen.

Edit: We've created a jury selection model that does exactly the opposite of the jury itself is meant to do...reflect the community.