This thread may not go well.. but it has to be said...

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37. My experience was a direct opposite to what you said.

I have used the alert exactly once in ten years. By most standards, that would not be considered excessive. Even though my objection was vindicated when there was (apparently) a massive follow-through, and I was only the first of many. However the reaction from the jury to my alert was negative and demeaning.

I have been on DU for somewhere around ten years, but I was cured for life from being on a DU jury with that incident. There are some really good people on here. There are some less so. The screening process for jury members is one that places people on there that tell me to grow a thicker skin when I object to an obvious troll that is picked up on by numerous members, but not the jury. I do not think asking to be included in such company would result in a positive outcome. I have a day job, I live in a time zone far from North America. That plus the rest tells to me that DU can find better fits for the task.