the poster to edit.

Kidding.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]TECT in the name of the Representative approves of this post.[/center][/font][hr]

I also alert on dumb usernames picked at randome.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

people who mock my username, people who disagree with me.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

and sent to a jury is to call someone a name or make a personal attack. Such posts often get hidden by juries. Most other posts don't get hidden, unless they're way far to the right in their content.

It's easy to avoid having a post hidden. Just don't call people names or attack them on a personal level. In a discussion, if you disagree with what a person writes, disagree with what was written, rather than attacking the person who wrote it.

If you write "You are an idiot," your post is likely to be hidden by a jury. However, if you write, "What you wrote is idiotic," you probably will not have your post hidden.

Expand those examples to other situations, and address the content of the post, rather than the poster, and you'll be fine almost certainly.

As this is an open forum of discussion, I think alerting on most things is senseless. Obviously, an open threat of violence would be a different matter, as would certain other issues. But IMHO most people who alert do so because they've gotten their feelings hurt. This is a message board and I believe it is important not to personalize postings made on this board to that point.

Posters can always be put on ignore.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5070661

I hadn't seen that one!!! Thanks for the laugh! By all means, we can't be insulting the teabaggers and Repukes, right???!!!

Huzzah to the alerter and his wicked cool sense of humor.

The attacks that could possibly be mistaken as a "real" post. I do not usually alert outright attacks, because I feel it just show the poster for what they are doing.

I have been taking advantage of the ignore feature, even though I never thought I would. No need to get my blood boiling over things that people on that list say anyway.



Ya, I have been that guy... =/

I still feel like an ass that I alerted on it

Someone would have to horribly abuse someone else for me to alert.

And also if someone is being especially nasty towards another poster.

Winter is coming.

against other posters. I don't bother alerting on personal attacks directed toward me.

I'll also SOP alert on CT and medical woo threads posted in GD, but those alerts are less than useless, because Hosts routinely ignore the SOP when it comes to conspiracy theories. We've also recently learned that some Hosts ignore alerts based on the identity of the alerter.

IMO, juries should handle SOP alerts too, and Hosts should be eliminated.

Sid

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

I think that if there's a troll pattern, that should be alerted. I'd report a threat to an admin.

"Hides", "Ignores", "put-downs," and "call-outs" and gratuitous snark or effrontery, I think, are high school behaviors that show the posters just need to chillax, move on, lurk awhile. When they persist in impeding constructive discussion, a jury should come in.

Generally, though, juries shouldn't be in a censorship mode over manners or questionably 'offensive' words. But they should discipline someone spouting along the lines of the Democratic Party's values.

I think constructive argument's helpful and destructive argument's a waste of everyone's time -- but not a reason to alert (or report). Many posters don't really know the difference. Nor do they show that they understand that the burden of proof (links or quotes) is always on the claimant, not the disputer.

Overall, no one should depend on online discussions for validation -- political, personal, religious or social.

As H2O Man says, go after the ideas, not the person.

Bad snooper post early, good snooper posts late...

Are you talking to me now bad snooper, this is good snooper!

What-

Wait, what time is it?


It is 3:15, what are you still doing here!


Are you still talking to me!

What!

Wait , who? blah bla aaar agae

Give me the mouse back!

Screw you! you aasssshot.l.l>F

asdfkjoasf3nn


Helale

HELP HELP!

3) blatant personal insults, although after alerting one of these yesterday and finding it had already been alerted and left standing, I may not bother anymore.

I do not alert because someone has hurt my feelings (personally) or because I don't agree with a post

We don't need any of those here.

Now Chuggo has a sad.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4796039

REASON FOR ALERT

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

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

A video that casually refers to women as "pussies" and "bitches" violates the TOS prohibition for bigotry based on gender.

JURY RESULTS

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Tue Apr 8, 2014, 04:22 PM, and voted 4-3 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Can't see the video. Couldn't be much more outrageous than the headline of the op
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: I agree.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Really?
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given