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In reply to the discussion: The DU jury system works [View all]Igel
(35,300 posts)Used to be that you'd alert and if the post was hidden, so be it. If not, so be it.
Now people feel like they have to do a post-mortem on the play, pointing out how important they are and how they beat up the other person. "Look at me! I'm bad! I'm bad!" All that's missing is the victory dance.
It makes DU less of a civil community that gets out of hand from time to time and more of a rugby match where none of the refs showed up--or where the refs take to the field as a third team. It was worse over the summer, when DU was a distinctly unfriendly place for newbies and for old timers, with all the screaming and bullying going on between narrow-minded individuals on pathetic power trips and with cliques that were formed to throw their weight around and be the Deciders.
I want that, I can drop in at the local high school during change of classes.