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Whiskeytide

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6. In the real world, someone who...

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Aug 13, 2015, 05:26 PM

Aug 2015

... has a past with an accused - good or bad - would never be permitted to sit on their jury. I know this isn't the real world, but the concept of "impartiality" still dictates that persons with bias step aside.

People who alert a post only because they don't like the poster have an f'd up understanding of the legal system in our DU community.

And people who vent a personal grudge via jury duty are as bad as it gets - it's a 3 year old mentality.

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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