Anyone else ever screw up a jury?

[reflection]

I think I did this morning. Stumbled out of bed, got my coffee, fired up DU as per my morning habit, got the ubiquitous "you've been selected for jury duty." Ok, it's early, but what the hell.

Read it, didn't see anything hideable, looked at the explanation, read the post again. Didn't see it. Read it a third time, nothing. Ok, no hide, no explanation.

Got the message in my inbox of the results. Rarely am I on the minority voting side of a jury, I bet my success rate is around 90%. But this one was 6-1 to hide, and I was the 1. I mean, damn, I had to have missed something, but now the poster and message are removed and I can't even look at it again to see what I missed. I hate doing my due diligence and still messing it up. Sorry mods.

I know it was said recently that jurors who aren't acting in good faith would be removed from selection consideration. I hope I didn't somehow make the list. Wouldn't be the end of the world, but still.

on edit: this was the post in case anyone remembers what the deal was

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511565495

[Nye Bevan]

1. Skinner did say that those voting to keep "worst of the worst" posts will be removed

from jury consideration. You may want to drop him a quick email to explain the circumstances.

[reflection]

2. I just posted it in ATA instead.

I have never had much luck with straight up DU mail to the Admins. They probably have a ton of them to sift through. Thank you for the advice though. I just hate messing things up.

[kwassa]

13. I haven't had much luck in ATA, either.

There are many posts there that never receive any response, and mine have been among them.

[Ex Lurker]

5. As I've stated before, I only vote to hide explicit threats or overt insults

If that's grounds for removing me from jury duty, I will accept Skinner's decision.

[Retrograde]

16. Is that why I haven't gotten any jury requests today?

There was one yesterday that 4 jurors decided to hide because of language: I let it stand because I found it totally incomprehensible!

[Nye Bevan]

17. He did say that people won't get notified if he excludes them from juries.

But I don't think not getting called for one single day proves anything.

[Retrograde]

18. It's ok - finally got one

but no where near the 2 or 3 that usually come in before lunchtime

[malaise]

3. Like you I have a 90% record of voting with the majority

but I have been the lone yes or no a few times.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I was on one yesterday where I was the lone hide and everybody else voted to leave it.

It was name calling.

I did my due diligence, too. Some threads seem to get in to tit for tat and then it's hard to
vote to hide without hiding the other poster, too. There clearly was some threshold level
of name calling that the 6 felt hadn't been reached.

My track record is pretty good too: probably on the majority side about 90% of the time.

You're not alone.

[lonestarnot]

6. Had that happen before. It's called infiltration.

[reflection]

9. Infiltration?

Can you elaborate please?

[valerief]

7. Sometimes I accept jury duty, then look at the nonsensical alert, and excuse myself from jury duty.

I get so tired of the silly alerts. Sometimes I'll be in a pissy mood and stick out jury duty and leave a pissy comment. None of this keeps those with an agenda from continuing their barrage of alerts. After all, they're paid to do this. Or they're volunteering like good little soldiers. Whatever.

Question: If I have someone on hide, will I get called to a jury they've alerted on? Will I get called to a jury for one of their posts that's been alerted on? I don't want anything to do with my Forever Ignored Club if I can help it.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. Send a message to one of the two people who answered the OP...

It was some kind of complaint about "safe havens"

[gollygee]

10. I have

I misread a post once and thought it said something it didn't. If you do enough juries, you are going to make a mistake here and there, but the system is set up so that one person making a mistake is unlikely to create a hide where one doesn't belong, or to keep a post that should be hidden, at least in obvious circumstances like it sounds happened here.

[trof]

11. That happened to me the other day. First time.

[Ron Obvious]

12. Sure, I've accidentally voted the wrong way

I vote to leave over 95% of the time, but did want to hide one particularly egregious post, explained in detail why I wanted to hide it, and then clicked Leave it Alone (more than once) out of sheer habit.

Made me look an idiot.

[etherealtruth]

14. I would guess admins will be looking for patterns of leaving egregious posts

I bet we have all done the exact same thing as you at one time or another

[Javaman]

15. IBTL nt