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consider_this

(2,203 posts) Tue Mar 26, 2024, 03:14 PM Mar 26

Hi Earl G - issue with Jury thread display??

Hi, I recently had a jury duty that I decided to bail on - the reason: it seemed to me that when I expanded all to see the context of the alerted post, it did not seem to display the messages in the thread in the tree'd expectation - so I was not sure which replies were directed to OP vs other replies in the thread. I don't know if that is a new bug, or perhaps this particular thread just made no sense, but can you check that out please?
FYI - I am viewing from a computer, not a phone. Thanks!

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Hi Earl G - issue with Jury thread display?? (Original Post) consider_this Mar 26 OP

I just finished jury on an IPhone and MOMFUDSKI Mar 26 #1

I have confirmed it is not showing as expected consider_this Mar 26 #2

This has not changed, but I can explain what you're seeing EarlG Mar 26 #3

Ah ok, thanks, but... consider_this Mar 26 #4

I don't think you're crazy EarlG Mar 26 #5

egads! consider_this Mar 26 #6

MOMFUDSKI

(5,542 posts)

1. I just finished jury on an IPhone and

Reply to consider_this (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 03:16 PM

Mar 26

all went well. Thanks

consider_this

(2,203 posts)

2. I have confirmed it is not showing as expected

Reply to consider_this (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 03:29 PM

Mar 26

I found the thread that had the alerted post in it, and now I can see there that the alerted post was in a branch of replies, not directly to the OP, however, the display in Jury view looked like all the posts when I expanded were made directly to the OP - so context was lost.

EarlG

(21,949 posts)

3. This has not changed, but I can explain what you're seeing

Reply to consider_this (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 05:35 PM

Mar 26

When you are on Jury service, you are only ever seeing one specific sequence of posts, and it is always the sequence which leads from the OP directly to the alerted post. All other "branches" of the conversation are removed.

The Jury page always begins with the OP and ends with the alerted post. In between those two posts will be every post which is a DIRECT reply in the chain. Sometimes there might not be any posts between them -- the alerted post might be a direct reply to the OP, in which case you would just see the OP and then the alerted post. But sometimes there might be a long chain of direct replies in between the two, and they could have been posted by multiple people.

By way of an example, here's a short sequence from a thread I posted yesterday:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/101314113#post15

At post 15 you can see a reply to the OP by BigmanPigman. Post 15 gets a response from Attilatheblond (post 16), and then Attilatheblond gets a response from BigmanPigman (post 21).

But post 15 *also* gets a response from TrueBlueAmerican (post 31). Now, if TrueBlueAmerican's post were to be alerted on, then posts 16 and 21 are irrelevant because they're not directly part of the same conversation. They don't provide any additional context, and so they do not need to be provided to the Jury.

Instead, the Jury would just see the direct sequence of events: The OP, then post 15, then post 31 (the alerted post).

The bottom line is that when you serve on a Jury you are only going to see the OP, the alerted post, and then any DIRECT replies that link those two posts together. Everything else is stripped out. I hope that makes makes sense.

consider_this

(2,203 posts)

4. Ah ok, thanks, but...

Reply to EarlG (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 10:21 PM

Mar 26

I think in the past they were displayed with the indents, so I knew they were a sequence of one part of thread. Now they are just listed sequentially without the indents, so I think that is what threw me off.
Am I crazy (this may be possible ), or did you, in fact, get rid of indents in the jury view and they were there before.