An open letter to Skinner (POSTED IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM)

[marble falls]

288. I am on jury almost every day. I take it very seriously, and I think it works the most of the time..

there are times when I see jurists make bad calls and I see juries where one of the jurists make a strong comment supporting a an alerted member with a vote against the alerted. I also see a lot of alerts that the jury obviously did not read the comment in context and hid a comment wrongly, I think that happened in part with the 1SBM hide. I think the juries are right at least 80% of the time and I don't know what can be done to effect removal of malicious posts and posters that also reflect the values of the DU community.

Is there gaming of the system? I believe there is. Its obvious that both 1SBM and bravenak have been target alerted even if I don't see how it works unless its just a matter of nonstop alerting at certain times of the day.

A few things might help improve the system: maybe a limit on alerts per person, a five minute lock on posting for jurors to give them the time to really look at an alert, maybe a time out from alerting if a member's alerts fail 0-7 or 1-6 so many times in a period.

It would be interesting to know how large any jury pool is. But I can see where that information could lead people to shop for times to alert abuse of other members.

Juries mostly work, maybe a SCODU (Surpreme Court of DU) to review verdicts like the one that 1SBM got stuck with? Made up of admin, Group Host, MIRT? Rating of jurists by % of verdicts in the majority?

If some the verdicts are toxic, imagine how toxic DU would be without juries and MIRT.