2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Simple solution Skinner, a POLL, should Skinner "Call It"??? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The alerter thought I was "being rude." to a guy who was - I stress - literally making a case for Hitler being a great guy. in the Israel / Palestine forum, of all places.
Any mechanism that relies on human beings making judgement on a text-based medium is going to rack up false positives. it's not a flawless marvel of engineering. And no, it's not a contradiction. The reality is that the three main reasons you get a post hidden is because you're being a jerkbutt.
I would know, I've been that jerkbutt my share of times.
There are some people who try to game the system - Interestingly there was an Hillary Clinton Group post near the beginning of the primary season that attempted to detail just how one could "stack" a jury. I think anyone who's been on a DU Jury has seen examples of these attempts. Funny thing is that they almost never succeed. Alert-stalking is pretty visible to the juries, and when you combine that with the transcendental reality that at least 60% of jurists are ALWAYS going to vote to leave with "that's just, like, his OPINION man!" as their comment anyway...
If the intent of the Arkham Release was to improve the quality of DU, well, it failed. BADLY. This place is actually worse than Discussionist in most ways, these days, and I see it as a direct consequence of this decision