The DUzy Awards for Friday, May 18th, 2012 - Part 1

[iverglas]

57. unfortunately, if alerters aren't going to put a bit of effort

into explaining what the reason for an alert is, not all jurors are going to have a clue what they're talking about.

The post alerted on is enormous. Yeah, it would have been easy to do a find for "seabeyond", but basically a jury was being presented with several monitors' length worth of text and a cryptic comment about a shitty thing being done to seabeyond.

Who knows what that juror would have done if the alert had said something like:

The DUzy awards typically feature witty put-downs of right-wingers in the news, or a bit of snappy repartee between DUers.
This one just insults seabeyond and only amuses people ... well, it doesn't really amuse anybody, does it?
Exploiting the DUzy awards to continue a campaign of very ugly mockery of another DUer is plain unpleasant.

? Maybe nothing different, but a bit of explanation is often appreciated by jurors.



edited - also best not to leave out words, so what you're saying actually makes sense.