to go back to a Mod system. People that understand the rules will have to enforce the rules.
The jury system was an interesting experiment and it seems to work until people start to gather into cliques and act like teenage mean girls.

And maybe they'll feel some shame/regret when their emotions sober up someday. (Hey, anything's possible...)

But no reason for us to join them in the gutter. Stand tall; our candidate has won, even if there's still some of the process left to complete before it's official.

Your comments to stand tall and stay out of the gutter are spot on. I find the overly aggressive and obnoxious tone of far too many posters tiresome. People who write with uncivilized attitudes lose their arguments, in my view, because I'll tune out and not read their posts.

We need mutual respect in order to make certain that Democratic candidates win their races.

If someone replies to a normal, civil post in an overly aggressive and hostile way, I don't feel an obligation to read it, much less respond. There's no point in arguing with someone who's spoiling for a fight; it'll just drag you into the gutter and put you in a bad mood. Even though my first instinct may be to react in kind, I know it won't help (which is advice I should have followed more when I was younger).

They really help.

BTW, I would certainly vote to hide malicious untruths about Sanders if I saw them.

... a group of trusted and responsible "super moderators" who would be given the responsibility of reviewing (at random, or every 10th jury decision) and judging whether the jurors who participated were being fair, or were being clique-ish in their vote.

If a juror was blatantly ignoring the rules, then that juror would be prohibited from serving again ... or would be put on a time-out from being able to serve again.

The downside is that *some* unfair decisions would get through. The upside is that over time, the dishonest jurors would be ferreted out and eliminated from the jury pool. Another upside is that the "super moderators" wouldn't have to moderate each-and-every alert. They'd only be monitoring how jurors perform (and because the jurors would be aware that their participation was being watched, they'd be more motivated to do the right thing from the outset.)

vote to Leave It, reasoning that even though the post SHOULD be hidden, they are voting to Leave it so that others can see the vitriol being posted.

Makes no sense to me.

been rendered impotent.

This forum is now the Wild, Wild West, with the outlaws running rough-shod over the place.

I was jury #3.

Just a reminder. Even though it had already been alerted others can still alert on it. It will be sent off to a person for review.

it's a double edged sword. I went into review after one hide and another immediately after when I was alert stalked. I just hope things will improve soon but I expect that it will get worse before better.

we survived it anyway.

for what they did, I hope DU can recover some sanity soon. I have left for months at a time because of the insanity over the Clintons and the D party. Criticism is one thing, board spamming with constant hate is another. If it doesn't get fixed I am sure the site will no longer be a place to visit for a lot of old long time members who are serious about politics and serious about fighting the pukes.

I knew I could blow off steam here.

Of course, the post stood. 4 to 3 decision. Ironically, right after I alerted, I was called to a jury on a post that called Hillary evil. I voted to hide, and of course, it stood 4 to 3. This is starting to feel like the Supreme Court with it's 5 to 4 gawdawful decisions.

I just keep telling myself it will be over and they'll all have to crawl back under their rocks.

That will go to the Admins.

Lord only knows how many people they'll FFR.

If others want to alert on the post I alerted on, I think that'll go to the admins.

It's their way of getting seen outside the Sanders group.

and this primary has been infested with trolls!!!

Between both, I come here less and less - and usually post in HCG.

pretty funny.

I wanted to post one of the responses that claimed Hillary was going to the big house, but I ended up posting the OP instead.

And DU will start the transformation.

That's the claim/plan, anyway.

I kind of think Skinner is just as sick of the shit as the rest of us. Maybe more. Probably more.

I never thought I'd see right wing lies about a major Dem posted here.

as legitimate sources, I knew we'd gone completely off the rails.

How could I? lol

Pathetic little worm.

pathetic little worm has 9 hides

at least it is off jury duty. --I hope

I hope to God the admins don't decide we have to wait until after the convention to stop this crap. If Bernie is still fighting after Hillary wins CA, will they still consider him a viable candidate?

a jury agreed to let it stand. I just did--. If the adminstrators get some more perhaps they might rethink it??? Probably not but we can try.




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It was subject to the same kind of swarm tactics we see on juries.

Some other boards I visit have gotten around that by putting in limitations so people are more circumspect in how they use up their meanie allotments.

Because of a remark had about Sanders.

Nobody outside this group should be a jury to anything in this group.

Sorry that happened.