Ok.. I just got alerted for telling the Bernie Sanders Group that I got alerted on... incredible

[berniepdx420]

The super delegates of the DU

[Nyan]

1. They're losing their shit right now. Just laugh it off. nt

[berniepdx420]

2. ok...

[Binkie The Clown]

3. I can't believe the original got hidden, let alone sharing the hide in a "protected group"

All groups are equal, but some groups are more equal than others. Is that how it works? I guess the Hillary group is more protected than our group?

[Lorien]

12. We can always test that theory.

[TSIAS]

4. AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service

Mail Message
On Fri Feb 19, 2016, 01:42 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Ok.. I just got alerted for telling the Bernie Sanders Group that I got alerted on... incredible
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280120753

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

More disruptive meta from this disruptive troll poster. Just the third post of the night about alerts and jury hides, can we cut the crap please and stop the whining. This is out of line for this group and should be hidden as over the top and complaining about a jury result.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Feb 19, 2016, 01:46 AM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Alert stalking at its finest.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Stop alerting on stupid stuff.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[CharlotteVale]

5. I was juror #2

[grasswire]

7. wow

that is really really awful

[cui bono]

13. lmao!!!

I never realized DU was such a comedy site until Hillary declared - or actually, until Bernie declared his presidential candidacy. And now that he's winning states the comedy is so much better? They've really improved their acts with all the practice.



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[Fuddnik]

6. They really are losing their shit, aren't they?

Sad spectacle.

[berniepdx420]

8. I think it is settling in that they might lose NV..

[Old Codger]

9. They will

Lose more than Nevada, if you think it is bad now wait til she loses Nevada and SC.... shit will fly...

[dana_b]

10. SC?? Nah...

But I really don't think Super Tuesday will be as "super" as they think it will be.

[Helen Borg]

17. And wait until they lose Nevada!

[Lorien]

11. After 14 years on DU with no alerts I had two posts hidden today

times they are a-changin'.

[appal_jack]

14. Uh-oh. Breathe deep.

Calm posts for a while... or should that be composts?



I like you being around, Lorien. Don't go & get banned...

-app

[Lorien]

15. Thanks appal_jack!

I kinda don't care too much if I get banned if DU decides that the Third (moderate republican) way is the ONLY way from now on. I'm a Dem from the Carter years. I haven't left the party, but it's been leaving me since the Reagan's days in office. If left of center isn't where they want to be anymore, then it's time to go Green or...something. We'll figure it out I'm sure!

[appal_jack]

31. My thoughts have traveled similar territory.

I was the only kid in my third grade class to vote for Carter in our 1980 classroom poll.

Since that time, I have moved from fervent hope for what Democrats and people organizing via the Democratic Party can do for America, to abject cynicism, and back again, more than a few times. Bernie, Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Nina Turner, and many of our local Democratic organizers here in NC have me quite hopeful at the moment.

I will say one thing now, if Bernie gets the popular vote, but Hillary clinches the nomination via Stupor-delegates, they'll have to choose between banning you (I imagine) and I both, or hearing our reasonable rage against such an undemocratic process.

-app

[malokvale77]

33. You sound like my daughter.

She was so upset about the awful things the other kids were parroting (from parents) that she did a report about "The Peanut Farmer". She loves him to this day.

[Tab]

18. I've been on about 12 years

and can count the number of hides on my (probably just) one hand. One was valid, I concede, but the other was I criticized the Obama administration for not considering a recess (or even regular) SCOTUS appointment. I also concede I called them 'pussies' in my description, but I think that's how they were, and the rest of the post (and conversation) was reasonable. In time, not very long, the news has beared me out with articles from everyone from Sandra Day O'Conner to everyone else saying Obama should appoint - in fact, it's his obligation.

But my post was "hurtful, inconsiderate, "over the top"", etc. I don't participate in the jury system any more - I think it's flawed. At least as moderators we took things into context and discussed them, and the poster's history, but as jury members we're expected to make a decision in a few minutes WITHOUT any cross-communication (deliberation, if you will) with other members, and no historical context. It's basically a joke, and short of an extreme case, I don't want anything to do with it.

Now, out of 10,000+ posts, I'm not worried about the occasional hidden post, but I find it frustrating nonetheless.

[Lorien]

25. I didn't realize that Obama is refusing to make a recess appointment

maybe he needs political cover to go with a more conservative candidate for the position?

[Live and Learn]

19. You? Wow, they are a-changin? And not for the better around here.

Had my first and only hide after an equal amount of years (different user names due to losing my email addresses and passwords) for repeating someone's words in quotes and adding, "Surprised, not!."

[Lorien]

24. Oh geez

someone obviously has a terribly thin skin. It is indeed getting ridiculous!

[delrem]

16. Yup, I just logged in and instantaneously was sent to jury duty,

on another stupid and lame alert.

They're alerting EVERYTHING.

What a bunch of cowardly weasels.

[Old Codger]

20. Lot of that going around

She uses sleeze politics, why would her fans be any different...

[MisterP]

23. nothing sweeter than seeing a 7-0 "leave it"

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. They know their candidate's "Firewalls" in Nevada and SC were really paper facades! Nonexistent.

They're in rabid attack mode. The best thing to do is avoid them, ignore their threads full of LIES and never, ever respond to them unless you must. They're trying to bait everyone into alert posts.

Just don't give them the satisfaction.

If they could have their way, DU would be only the 20-30 Clinton supporters talking to themselves.

IGNORE THEM. It does wonders for your blood pressure!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[berniepdx420]

22. good advice

[merrily]

26. Why are meta alerts in a protected group even going to a jury?

Isn't that a group host decision?

[Lorien]

27. I got alerted on TWICE yesterday, after 31,000 posts and nearly a decade and a half

of no alerts. Someone out there either has a VERY thin skin, or is terribly bored.

[noamnety]

28. I wasn't on the jury

and not sure how I would have voted on the meta stuff. Sometimes I excuse myself from those juries. But I will say I don't want to come to the Bernie group and see it overtaken with "I got alerted on" threads. I want to see commentary on Bernie or Hillary - the other stuff is a little facebook squabble drama-ish for me.

[blm]

32. I've been finding it difficult, too. There is a notable lack of substance and a notable excess

of frothing reliance on propaganda that seems deliberately crafted to break down the party, itself.

RW talking points abound - and it sickens me to see them being used by both camps - some innocently, some I suspect as NOT so innocent, and, in fact, deliberately calculated.

Some of us have been fighting the RW propaganda media since the early 90s, and it kills me to see it is actually being SPREAD here these days.

Another sad reality is the preciousness going around - I was one of the early blocks from HRC group for a mild criticism of a campaign tactic they were employing early on. I pop in here now and then to voice a concern, but, have mostly stayed away because some of the enthusiastic attacks coupled with overthetop glee feel insincere and doesn't pass the smell test to me.

I guess some of us remember SeventhSon and other trolls like him, all too well.


http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-moon-rising-john-gorenfeld/1102623743

[navarth]

29. How about that proposed rule

where the alerter can be penalized for a certain number of un-hidden alerts? That would cut down on frivolous alerts and stalking, I would think. My 2 cents

[berniepdx420]

30. Sounds brilliant to me..

[Zorra]

34. That's really sad. nt