Stinking elephant carcass in the room. 50% of that jury was apparently comprised of homophobic,

[yardwork]

23. I'm not sure that a preponderance of DU disagrees with you.

The jury system is a radical change from the way that DU has been run. I agree with the concerns that you and others have raised, but I also had serious problems with the old system. Without going into a lot of detail and rehashing extremely long threads, etc. I'll just say that the moderators on old DU were a mixed bag when it came to recognizing and handling bigoted posts. Many of the recent posts that we think that DU3 jurors should have hidden would have been allowed to stay under the old DU system. AND I doubt that many of the disruptors who have been banned for those posts in recent days would have been banned under old DU. In fact, I was banned for two years for pointing out that a moderator was repeatedly taunting the LGBTQ community on DU (I guess I am going to rehash old grievances - sorry!). Dozens of other GLBTQ posters and allies were banned during the same time period and very few of us have been allowed to return (although I understand that banned posters can sign up for DU3 now and won't be automatically bounced - I don't know if anybody has tried to return, though. There are a lot of bad feelings about DU among LGBTQ posters in the blogosphere.)

The old system was so bad at rooting out low-level bigots, and so infamous for turning on people who complained about this, I'm feeling pleasantly surprised at how well DU3 is working.

I agree that the jury system needs some tweaks.