A modest psa

[cali]

If you don't care for certain fellow duers, think very carefully before alerting on them. And how out of jury service if the poster is someone you feel negatively about or you're frequently in conflict with. That would go a long way in making the jury system impartial- and it's the right thing to do.

[Nye Bevan]

1. How about we alert on posts that we feel violate community standards,

regardless of our opinions of the poster? And judge posts during jury duty impartially, too?

[cali]

2. And in order to do that- achieve a degree of impartiality, the suggestions in the op make sense

[tkmorris]

3. Yeah, that aint gonna happen

Maybe it should, but it won't.

[Agschmid]

4. Heck, if you feel like alerting... Sign the alert.

No one is stopping you from signing the alert or the jury duty.

And if your worried about someone pretending to be you, if that happened you could make admin aware and I sure they'd PPR the person who did it.

Honesty matters.

FYI: I'm a host, I will not participate in the host discussion if this post makes it there. I will abstain.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Personally, I alert and jury on content

I do not worry who is saying it. But ya, the system allows for bias. I have experienced it first hand getting seemingly innocuous posts hidden in the past.

As Skinner has said (paraphrasing)

"You make your post you take your chances."

[Whiskeytide]

6. In the real world, someone who...

... has a past with an accused - good or bad - would never be permitted to sit on their jury. I know this isn't the real world, but the concept of "impartiality" still dictates that persons with bias step aside.

People who alert a post only because they don't like the poster have an f'd up understanding of the legal system in our DU community.

And people who vent a personal grudge via jury duty are as bad as it gets - it's a 3 year old mentality.

[MineralMan]

7. An interesting idea.

It's one that fits how I do jury service on DU pretty closely. It's a bit one-sided, though, I think, since it only applies to jurors, pretty much. What would work better, though, I believe, would be everyone always posting in a civil way.

That seems to me to be the real solution. No personal attacks, for example. No name calling of other DUers or elected Democrats. That sort of thing. We could still disagree with each other, but without being ugly about it.

What if there never was a reason to alert? Wouldn't that be a better solution?

Just musing, of course...