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

[NeoGreen]

375. Thank you very much...

...I hope this exchange helps others, since it has helped me.

For the record, I was juror #1, and I now realize that I misread/misunderstood the gist of your post #115 (I read it as a Secretary-HRC supporter criticizing Senator-BS supporters) at the time I was evaluating it for jury duty.

Fortunately, as I always try to do, I focused on the content of the post.

I like the premise of DU jury duty process (i.e. general members of the DU community being vested in the practice of moderating site posts) but I think there may need to be some improvements in the mechanics of conducting jury duty so that a juror can more efficiently evaluate the thread in which the post was made, the history of the alerted-poster and history of the alertee.

I would like to see some method of allowing the alerted-poster to have an opportunity to provide a rebuttal to the alertee's comment. As it stands now the process seems too 1-sided against the alerted-poster. I could see where this rebuttal option has limits, i.e. only for those who have more than 100 posts, or some such criteria.

Plus, I would like to see a "Jury Primer" on DU that gives examples of good and bad hides and exactly what a "call-out" is (there are positive and negative call outs, and I've seen both used as reasons to vote for a hide) and what the DU definition of "meta" is, so we have a reference for our jury decisions.

And finally for the record, I am very happy that Senator Sanders is running for the nomination and I hope he does very well and ultimately succeeds, however, at the end of this process I will support the Democratic nominee, whomever that may be.

An R is an anathema to me.

Apologies if I rambled...
NG