Should Democratic Underground switch to seven-person juries?

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330. VASTLY more important is an appeal process to moderators

i voted yes because i think it's a mild improvement, but only very mild improvement.

tinkering at the edges.


FAR more important is to have an appeal process, perhaps limited to cases of 4-3 or 5-2 jury results.

there are two weaknesses of the jury system:
1) not all jurors can put in the time to get a proper perspective in cases where the alert isn't really a "just this one post" alert
2) jurors have quite varying standards, leaving many people with the sense that a different jury would have decided quite the opposite.

in either case, a small group of moderators could set standards to provide for a bit more consistency and predictability for the community, while preserving the jury system as the first step would easy the burden for the moderators.