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gollygee

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17. It's less stalking than swarming
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:10 PM
Mar 2016

There are a bunch of DUers who alert on, or vote to hide on, every single post possible from certain people. Bravenak, 1SBM, SheShe, etc. There are a number of DUers who have this happen, including a lot of AA DUers. It isn't about one DUer stalking people, it's about a group who has power because they work together to put in bad alerts and then hide every alerted post by certain people. I don't even know if they've networked to plan it, or if they just built up a following to do this. But I know something is going on when I see some of the hides the people who are getting swarmed get. In some cases, it looks like the DUer lost their temper and earned a hide, but in a lot of cases the hides look really questionable, at best.

Some white Clinton supporters seem to get bad alerts and hides too. I've seen bad alerts on some Bernie supporters as well, so it isn't all one sided, but on the other hand when 80% of the people on this site support one candidate, it's going to be biased simply because of that.

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