You know, I really thought we had finally moved past this.

[progree]

43. On the bottom of the email announcing jury results there is an "Alert Abuse" button

On Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:15 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Thank God I'm Not The Only One...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511520728

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Patronizing and racist.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:32 AM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Nothing here that breaks the rules. If you don't agree with the OP, give your reasons, but stop trying to hide things just because you disagree.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
[font color = blue]Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: So "black Americans" are stupid and all fucked up. Got it. Off to hidey-hide land you go.[/font]
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: While I don't agree with the contents of the post I don't think it's racist in nature.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Post is insulting to black voters and is very condescending.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
[hr][font color = red]Alert Abuse[/font] <-here's the button (its not an active link here in this post of course)

and when I clicked on it, it said: "This alert will send an email to the Administrators:"

I was juror #4 in blue. I was SURE, ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the post would be hidden, so that's why I wrote, "Off to hidey-hide land you go"

and then when the jury results came back (2-5 to LEAVE it), I thought well I was sure a dumb-fuck to think this would be a 6-1 or 7-0 hide.

So now I'm laughing my ass off that he got better than a hide -- a full-blown PPR.

The only thing that dampens my mood a bit, is that the home page might be filled with "Trending Now" and maybe even "Greatest Threads" making WillyT to be some kind of martyr that was just posting an article blah blah blah

(with the post title "Thank God I'm Not The Only One..." and all his downstream comments that make clear he shares that opinion. But that part will be left out of the poor WillyT martyr-hero posts)

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Besides posting in ATA and that Alert Abuse thing in the email, the only other way I know of is to send an email direct to one of the administrators... something one should very rarely do, but in special circumstances like this, I tthink I would have had I not had the "Alert Abuse" option in my email to accomplish the same thing (it seems to take weeks for the admins to get thru the ATA posts, though they may read them all right away, just not respond for awhile .... except for ones on an issue of blatant racism ... one would hope ... well they did come through on this one in very timely fashion !!!!).