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PowerToThePeople

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5. Personally, I alert and jury on content

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Aug 13, 2015, 05:16 PM

Aug 2015

I do not worry who is saying it. But ya, the system allows for bias. I have experienced it first hand getting seemingly innocuous posts hidden in the past.

As Skinner has said (paraphrasing)

"You make your post you take your chances."

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A modest psa [View all] cali Aug 2015 OP

How about we alert on posts that we feel violate community standards, Nye Bevan Aug 2015 #1

And in order to do that- achieve a degree of impartiality, the suggestions in the op make sense cali Aug 2015 #2

Yeah, that aint gonna happen tkmorris Aug 2015 #3

Heck, if you feel like alerting... Sign the alert. Agschmid Aug 2015 #4

Personally, I alert and jury on content PowerToThePeople Aug 2015 #5

In the real world, someone who... Whiskeytide Aug 2015 #6

An interesting idea. MineralMan Aug 2015 #7