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In reply to the discussion: The chilling effect of misogynistic trolls [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Indeed, sometimes I think there is too much.
I am not a fan of hiding posts because of wording issues, for example; and I have seen jury resullts (though not as my own posts), where a juror says the substance is okay, but the poster should have said it differently.
I recently got a post hidden for not using a sarcasm emote (allegedly). I had thought the post so extreme that adding the emote would have been an insult to the intelligence of DUers, like Jonathan Swift feeling compelled to put a sarcasm emote in A Modest Proposal. But, I was mistaken. Either that, or some jurors were thrilled to get a chance to hide a post of mine. Who knows? Some of the comments made by the jurors were personal to me and had zero to do with the post in question though those jurors knew me and therefore knew I was being sarcastic and did vote not to hide.
I guess the idea of the jury system is that this is a community. And if seven persons, supposedly chosen randomly, don't want your post showing on the board, that should be what governs, not what a mod or board owner thinks It's not all bad, honestly, or I would not still be here myself. But there are pitfalls.