I was a moderator on DU way back when.

[progree]

95. What is happening to Post A is a separate issue. That is one that, in my example, began the

incivility and therefore deserves to be Hidden. Whether it is ultimately hidden or not does not influence how I will vote on person B's post. (And the sad thing is that usually Person A's post isn't hidden from what I've seen -- I often check on threads I've juried for many hours or a day later. But such is life...).

To me, it is unfair to hide a uncivil reply to an uncivil post unless it is a clear and gratuitous escalation and/or crossing another boundary. And that's just the way it is with me.

Actually, I would like to see more posts hidden than probably most DUers. For example, I often see something like person C saying "that was a really stupid post" in reply to someone's supposedly stupid post. Me, I'd vote to hide it. But I've rarely seen a post like that hidden. Excuses are, "its not a personal attack, but just an observation", "it was an attack on the post, not the person who wrote it", or "it really was a stupid post, I agree".

I see posts like that all the time and I've never seen one of those hidden (I often click on the "This post was hidden by a jury" just to see what kind of posts are hidden)