These hides are getting ridiculous!

[nolawarlock]

23. I disagree entirely that I was out of line.

Bernie supporters are throughout GDP calling Hillary supporters stupid, deluded, unethical, unprincipled, every imaginable vulgar epithet and nearly all of it stands and little is reporters. I put a word in asterisks to emphasize that I'm Not talking her reputation, because she deflected my initial point by saying that using Fox as a source cheapened us was somehow impugning her personally for posting it and this was simply not what I had ever said. Then, after insulting me up one side and down the other, I posted the following, which was not vulgar. The use of the word "precious" might have been snarky, but was certainly nowhere near as rude as what it was responding to.

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I am not trying to smear *your* precious reputation
I am trying to point out that posting links to Rupert Murdoch's Titillating Cavalcade of Tabloid Trash™ lowers the bar on this website. If you want to deflect from that by making this about your personal reputation, you are free to do so, but I am confident that even the most ardent Bernie supporter knows that's not the point I'm making, even if they won't admit it. I'm sure the right wingers who surf this site are cackling that we're now legitimizing their pseudo-journalistic temple of spin.
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As a Web developer for over 22 years who was also educated in politics at one of the most prestigious political universities on the planet, and as someone who has hosted and administrated both message boards and Facebook groups, I can say without a reasonable doubt that the jury system here is utterly broken and serves only the whims of those in the majority candidate, in this case, those who support Sanders.

Using your line of reasoning, the countless vulgar, hateful, and abusive things that Sanders supporters post hourly should also be getting hid, but few of them are even alerted, and when they are, they're ignored.

I have proposed to the admins that it should take a 5 to 2 jury decision to hide, since the jury system is almost exclusively used to silence any strong point that Hillary supporters make and a 5 to 2 balance is the closest to the breakdown of Bernie supporters vs. Hillary supporters. Granted, that would make it even harder for Hillary supporters to alert anything Bernie people post but at least we wouldn't be getting hidden all the time.

As for this being a discussion forum and "nothing more," whether an interaction is digital or tangible is irrelevant to me. Whether this type of tactic is used in person or online it is equally obnoxious.

I was always going to pull the lever for Bernie if he was the nomination up until this point. His supporters have made me question whether I should just stay home. That's how angry I am about it.