Irony Alert: I got an alert & hide in the Hillary Clinton group for talking about the alert stalking

[jeff47]

18. Now.

That was not the case a few months ago, and juries were stacked the other way. Which resulted in similar abuses of the jury system.

So I made some suggestions to make the jury system more transparent - such as alerting you to any posts that went to a jury (perhaps with a filter so 0-7 or 1-6 doesn't tell you). So you'd actually have an idea of how often posts were actually being alerted on, instead of all of us just guessing. Also in non-stalking cases, if someone's getting more and more frustrated and approaching "the line", they'd get a bit of a head's up that they need to cool off.

Skinner felt it was better to not have everyone so focused on alerts, and so did not want to expose more information.

Personally, I'd also like to see punishment for "bad" alerts, so that there is a meaningful negative consequence. But I don't have a decent design for that. Perhaps clicking alert and getting a 0-7 (or 1-6) result counts as a "half hide".

Anyway, in the short run, you can use the jury blacklist if you feel you have a stalker (My Account -> Jury Blacklist). Unfortunately, it's not unlimited.