Jury work..Never had so many requests..never..

[Stuart G]

In the last few weeks, two or three times a day. Most of the time..ok, but so many requests??
It means one of two things..
1. lots of unnecessary requests
2. more anger and bad judgment in posts.

any ideas?

[JonathanRackham]

1. Same here, 2 or 3 a day.

Bunch of cranky people.

[merrily]

2. Alert stalking. It's gone bonkers. I'm voting leave most of the time.

Most of the time, I'm tempted to tell off the alerter, but I resist. So far.

[Stuart G]

5. Yes, some are legit..but some are...??????

I used to watch a cartoon...BIZZARO.......!!!!!

Weird, unnecessary..etc,

[merrily]

10. By far the majority are just attempts to get a sympathetic jury to hide, alert stalking.

[patricia92243]

3. Two or three times a day doesn't sound so bad, especailly with all the horrible posting that

is going on now. I thought it would have been dozens of times a day.

[merrily]

13. Huh? The same juror doesn't get called dozens of times a day.

[Sissyk]

4. Check ATA.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12599667

[merrily]

8. That does not address the point I made in reply 2. People alerting like it made them money.

[Kber]

6. Bit of both

I've been a member since 2004, so through a couple of primaries. I don't remember this much vitriol in '08.

[Stuart G]

12. Neither do I, and I was also here in 2008..nt

[Arazi]

7. I've never been on one

[Paulie]

22. Your 3 hides means you ended up with a zero chance to serve

Jury
Willing to serve on Juries: Yes
Eligible to serve on Juries: Yes
Chance of serving on Juries: 0% (explain)
1401 total posts: +14
200 or more days of membership: +20
20 or more posts in the last 90 days: +20
Not a Star member: +0
3 posts hidden in 90 days: -60
TOTAL: 0

Just look at your profile.

[Arazi]

23. Ah! But I only got those in the past month (grrr GDP lol)

[CTyankee]

9. I dunno. Me too. LOts and lots of juryy requests.

I'm not angry, tho. It's OK...

[Kenjie]

11. I don't post a lot

so I have a 40ish% chance of serving. Since I began posting late last year I have served 14 times. I always read the thread to get an idea of the context of the dispute. IMHO I think it is a little of both but I would say many of the 14 I have served on were unnecessary and I usually vote to leave it. I don't mind serving and I always try to be fair but I have to admit some of the things that get alerted on really have me scratching my head.

[Kittycat]

14. I let a lot of them go.

Some of the alerts are just hypersensitive. I think they have the safety turned off on the alert trigger.

Put them on ignore, or debate why you believe your candidate isn't, or post puppies & kitties and call it a day. GDP is safer than some of the mommy debate board out there any day. Have you ever seen thread on returning shopping carts to the corral go down on a parenting site? Yeah, politics for $300 please, Alex.

[HuckleB]

15. Too much fiber.

[OriginalGeek]

16. 4 times just today I've gotten the blue banner

the first three were dismissed by a message stating that too many jurors had been called but thanks for my willingness to participate. The last one was real but got hidden despite my Leave It vote. 3-4 to hide. Oh well, no skin off my nose.

[demmiblue]

17. Frivlolous alerts are a factor.

I was alerted on for posting this:

demmiblue (7,830 posts)

10. thepeoplesview... lol!

I am now in the habit of looking at the source before reading the snippet/clicking on the link.

Good times, good times!

Vote: 7-0 leave it

[gcomeau]

18. From the ones I'm getting...

...it's primarily bad requests. Getting really fed up with the alert stalking.

[Mendocino]

19. I served gladly

for a while, then nearly every alert was Bernie vs Hillary in some form, so I opted out. Since I favor one over the other, I thought I couldn't be objective. Gave it a rest, got back in, same old same old. Opted out again.

For the record, whoever wins the primary gets my vote. Going purist in the upcoming election is like peeing your pants while wearing a dark suit, it may give you a warm fuzzy feeling, but nobody notices. If the rw wins this cycle, this country may never recover and is screwed forever.

[Kenjie]

20. Update: #15

Well that just happened...

[dembotoz]

21. there seemed to be fewer juries during give a heart days

buy a shamrock

easter eggs

i dunno or what this my guess