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For a moment I thought I'd brought in five hidden replies!



OBTW, the system seems to be working by your own statistics, fewer alerts and fewer hides.

Yay!

I thought I'd been pretty good as of late!

so I had to wonder which five posts got hidden.

Paranoia, it's what's for breakfast today.

Whatever it is - I apologize!

I've decided to alert on every one of your posts with the hopes of finding a dream jury on enough of them to get you up to five.

Of course I'm just kidding but without specifically saying that, someone is bound to take me seriously and start alerting on all my posts in retaliation.

Musta just been the bad kids...

if we see you before the holidays???

in real life, all these decades i am the goodest of good. see how that works.

i get to call someone hoot and toad. does it get any more fun than that?

But here's where I heard you wanted to be told to step away . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125531851#post37

Better watch out - or you'll rack up enough new hides to be banished for another 90 days - of course, the good news would be that they're all in a very short period of time so they would drop off quickly.

Who you callin' Toad, anyway???



Enjoy your break - it will be a bit shorter than anticipated, at least!

was not being said. i couldnt let du down like that. what would that make me....

I don't think I have ever - ever had a post hidden.

Just the same it was a wake up call!

Pooping your pants is icky and announcing it is a critical TMI breach.

Changed it to "poop"!

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since I knew I didn't have any hidden posts

It's usually when I'm away from a facility, later in the day.

So although I appreciate you can chew through the restraints pretty well, I do have one small issue.....

The Pomade has to go.

That's dingleberry prevention right there, brother!

Is this like an Easter egg hunt? I love those!! but why would you hide a post... its supposed to keep a fence up..right?


I am kidding of course, .... we all know its that yucky post bran cereal which deserves to be shoved to the back of the shelf.


I kidd!! Really!! hides... promises to be a good girl! really!

Don't hide the posts!!!



Happy weekend, yuiyoshida!

Skp san! Yay its Saturday!

Bah Humbug 5 seems awfully small unless it's 5 hidden posts in a week. I know I've been I was um juried once (no appeals court here) for um a mistake on the main page that let an atheist only page get there so naturally I responded. and that got ugly real fast. Not like I just go seek out the Atheist only section and post something nasty. It showed up on the main page and I responded to that. which is why I was against the Jury system for over a year. I changed my mind at some point this year. Now I'm watching The Hogfather. Happy Hogswatch

me I was cranking up hidden posts! Panic over! Phew!

Does this mean if I hide someone's post or does it mean if five people hide my posts? I know, it seems simple to folks who are familiar with the issue but I don't understand the meaning of the phrases. Thanks.

When you have a reply hidden, you get a PM telling you about it.

So, you probably have no hidden posts.

Your transparency page is a feature by which other members can see when you've been naughty, but it's only visible to members after you have a bunch of hidden replies.

You can check on a member's transparency page by clicking on their profile and then on the transparency button.

I'll send you a PM with a link to an example, for privacy's sake, to a member who has been banned.

I AM OFF MY GAME I TELL YOU

that flashed across the page and I read it like I had just been banned from posting. Warnings are wonderful as long as they don't give rise to fear.

Had a yikes moment.

How about toasting the obvious trolls and sockpuppets? I can provide you a list.

Sheese. Anyway sounds good what Skinner says.

I hope this does what we are all hoping it will, and helps us to be courteous and polite to each other (even when we think the other person is completely and utterly WRONG - lol!).



ON EDIT: And for the record, I *also* had the heart stopping moment about five hidden posts. Definitely freaked me out.

also, it was informative to see the ATA discussion (somewhat spurred by post on GD about how to calculate 90 days from any date....) and to see just how few of us have run afoul of the transparency page threshold.

there is actual repercussions with a hide. this morning alone i have had different duers send me three alert results, for three posts. that is just this morning. the last couple days i am having duers all around send me alert results.

how hard do you think it is going to be to find four jurors that do not like me? not cause i am uncivil. or name calling. but simply for the fact they do not like what i say. you are behind the scenes. you can see if there is a concerted effort to get particular duers kicked off du. i hope you take this into consideration.

You probably all DUmailed each other - and you're probably gonna have a rockin' good time talking about us behind our backs for a while, since DUmail will apparently still work.

it is 5 o'clock somewhere. rules are rules.

Try again.

I most likely would have voted to hide those. A couple of them I was surprised they weren't 6-0 hides.

i love using hoot, legitmately. makes my reply even kinda fun. no disrespect. simply a statement

It's shorter to type, and yes, I do answer to it IRL.

We all have our hot topics, it seems.

yes. we do have the hot. well. not all. some are really really opposed to getting into hot. me? meh.

for you, from the heart...

Have a Merry Solstice!

you're da man

No judging. I've never had a problem with you that I know of (unless it was in a different life). At least the pushback of the date gets you a few extra days. If you don't get another one you'll be back in late Jan with only 3. We'll still be here waiting for you (and I mean that in a nice way).

alerts have i had today, that i did not receive a heads up? as i said, i am controversial. i am a small minority on du, though a very progressive stance and we are on a democratic board.

i am not well liked by many. all that is needed is four jurors that do not like me. enough alerts, surely that is not hard. the hides are inevitable, unless skinner and the others actually pay attention to any abuse of the system. i would hope that they would. understanding that it would be no more or less than majority rule, bullying. and we as progressive cannot allow bullying. surely. we must... stand up for our minority sistahs.... wink.

thanks for your reply.

Some of them are absolutely ridiculous. I don't know if you are being targeted or if jurors are making no effort whatsoever to evaluate what is being said. Either way silencing you for any period of time does not help this board at all.

thing i have heard today. and with all the ugly, i have had a lot of nice today. thank you. very much appreciate. and ... very much needed.

about my luck on Obamacare..and had a comment waiting, and I thought...uh oh...maybe there should be no more Obamacare posts???

There's something about red and yellow together that raises the pulse, I think...

You pick twenty prominent people in town and send each an anonymous telegram reading, "Flee at once. All is discovered." Then you wait to see how many suddenly vanish.

Still, I'm glad to see that I was far from the only one who immediately assumed that the banner was aimed specifically at me.

Was going to ask how does one know that one has any hidden post, let alone five!!

Please change the banner to: attention EVERYONE!

How does one know if they have had a post juried or hidden? Still too new here to know all the ins and outs and I would prefer to know immediately if I am saying something that is too objectionable, as that is never my intent here. I didn't know what the yellow stripe meant...was afraid to open in case it was an ad or something. Now I know to open and read them.

now. And then this big yellow warning banner blares across my screen! YIKES!

There goes the ol' paranoia again...

So far 32 folks CARED that they could be banned from posting...bet non are trolls

Yeah, I care a lot! What if I'm prevented from mouthing off? How can I continue maintaining my status as a truly Insufferable Bloviating Schmuckette?

Dayum...

I'd only be a troll on some CONservative site, but that's really not possible because I don't think I could stomach being on one of those, even for a few moments. I don't know how the folks here do it - who voluntarily go over to the freeper sites to be our eyes and ears for us. They've got a lot more fortitude than I ever could imagine having!

I don't have any hidden posts yet.

Now I need to take a Xanax.

I am not joking and I have ZERO hidden.

*kidding*

but the yellow alert notification thingie startled the shit out of me.

it looks like it is directed towards the member rather than an announcement.

Then I got five simultaneously?

all of us couldn't have had 5 hidden posts in the last hour!

this at all. Those who regularly get posts and replies hidden have a simple solution to avoid this in the future. For those few, maybe a few days off from posting until they have fewer than 5 hidden posts will be enough to change whatever habits they have that cause their posts to be hidden.

It's not difficult to avoid hidden posts, really, even when you disagree with someone. I had one, once, and understood why. I simply never did that again. Lesson learned.

I hope that soon there will be 0 visible transparency pages. That would be great for DU.

He also said the number of alerts has gone down significantly too, so overall people are "behaving" better. This is all good for DU.

For the most part, DU is polite, even when people disagree. That's not always the case, and there are a few people who can't resist ugly comments about people, but they're few enough to simply ignore, either using the forum's Ignore function or the old fashioned way.

any evidence that a reduction in hides means DUers are acting more civilly towards each other. The only thing fewer hides means is that fewer jurors are hiding posts. That's it. It could just as easily mean that DUers have a higher tolerance for treating each other like crap.

It seems to me that there is less blatant rudeness.

I don't know.

Went out and chopped ice and calmed down.

I appreciate the efforts to keep discussions real around here most of the time. Good work!

Whew, a sudden big scary yellow alert at --)ME(--.

How do I know if I have some?

To check it out:

Click on your profile (looks like an old rolodex card next to your post count at the top of any post or at the top of the page on the right next to your username (My Profile).

Then click on the (explain) next to the chance of serving on juries and it will tell you how many hidden posts you have.

If you ever get a post hidden you will also get a message in your in box letting you know which post was hidden and why.

After clicking on your profile you can also click on the Transparency Tab at the top under your bolded user name. If it's grayed out you have fewer than five hidden posts if it's yellow you have five or more and you're in trouble and everyone can access it. You can click on the grayed out tab and it will say it's not displayed. But, because it's your page you can click on the "Show me my transparency page" link and any hidden posts and other information will be displayed.

epic series of way too drunk to post posts that would cause five hides in one night.

Just like Obamacare!

Typical liberals!

I do not think that I have any hidden posts. Do you get an alert if your post is challenged?

This should force members who like to skate on the edge to learn to self-moderate the tone of their messages or face the consequences.

Just imagine if some people had to take an extended vacation from DU.

Where's my nitro tablets!

...and then I thought..ah...maybe not.

narrowly averted at my house...

Like some of the others, my heartrate went up a bit when I thought I had somehow gotten five hidden posts in a matter of a couple of hours.

Then it got really crazy when I thought about the mathematics of it...

Five hidden posts...in order to be hidden, at least 4 people have to agree...so in the space of two hours I managed to piss off 20+ people???

At that point, I was about to kick the shit out of my evil twin...

It's almost as bad as seeing a cop car creeping up behind you and you just assume you did something wrong, even when you haven't.

And you know we all do that!

and I will wish you a Happy New Year if by then I have recovered from the mini stroke I just had seeing the big, yellow warning.

I get most of my headlines at Facebook these days.

and how many posts you have. I have 2 I think but that is over 10 years and a few thousand posts.

Just a suggestion.

The Ron Paul fans should not have votes on the DU juries, to make it fair.

A while back I got some posts hidden, but according to my profile it's been 149 days since the last one. Obviously I'm doing a very poor job of riling people up lately.

Read more comments and got my answer.

They have gotten so anal lately. All the comments I've made in the last week on their crappy site have disappeared. I should stick to DU and get my count up.

And I'm not - uh, forgive me - clear about the whole transparency thing. Not sure I understand that.

Then, "Show me my transparency page".

Wasn't sure even where to start looking. Thanks!

(Like other DUers have said here, I too thought I had somehow gotten myself into hot water).

Dear DU Admin:
There is NO WAY that I could have written 5 posts worthy of being hidden overnight, I've never even had one post hidden! The only explanation for my having five hidden posts in one night must be due to the fact that you can now read my thoughts and are predicting posts I may post in the future.

I applaud this new telepathic upgrade to your servers, I am comforted in the knowing that DU's days plagued by covert energy industry shills, CATO Institute provocateurs and those who believe the good Earth to be round like a pizza have come to an end!

Ah, what a pleasant DU we must now have! DUers who secretly believe a woman's place is in the home, gone! Members who want everyone to own a gun or three and yet whose own God given 'gun' has more width than length GONE!! Posters who think to persuade their fellow DUers that Ron/Rand Paul actually read and understood the US Constitution GONE!!1! Those annoying Karl Rove plants, (aka 'Fart Petals'), GONE GONE GONE!!!

I assure you I've no such secret agenda, I swear that in my heart of hearts I know Alex Jones to be a fraud...what possible reason could the new DU Thought Police have had to temporarily block my posting privileges????? More importantly what about my right to be safe and secure in my own skull, shouldn't the robbing of one's very thoughts without a warrant be a no-no?

Tell you what, I promise that unless Senator Sanders changes his affiliation to Team Democrat I will not vote for him in the next Presidential race and I swear that I will try to curb any anxious thoughts I may have should a woman other than Elizabeth Warren get that nomination. Sooooo can I have my posting privileges reinstated?

FLASHY YELLOW. Jesus.

It will take a while to see the effects but I'm guessing it will make DU an even better place.

I can't tell you how many people I've bull dozed in my life and those were family members. To be honest there were 9 kids. Sink or swim.
I don't mind the jury system, but someone actually called me a troll. I call it projection.
What kind of left-wing, tree hugging, feminist is a troll? Or rather, what kind of troll?

Avoid responding to any posts on Israel.

Avoid them like the plague!

They are the thinnest of thin ice!

You will notice there are not many OPs on the subject.

I got knocked off for just making a statement that was absolutely true but it was not politcally correct.

...seemed almost all the "big names" at DU, freaked out thinking that they were all in trouble!

Oh come on...it was funny.

I don't have a clue either. I need some help!

...the funniest thread I've read on any forum in a very long time.

I so love that I found DU.

You folks rock!!

all about or how to go about fixing this. I haven't posted as much as I did in previous years, but did contribute money so I could keep my star. I'm not sure what the Transparency page is. Is this the page that shows where & when I've posted in the past? I thought the posts would automatically be deleted after a certain length of time. I haven't cleared out my posts, but have tried to clear quite a few out and I can't delete them.

Could you explain further. I feel kind of stupid here, but just haven't kept up with everything here at DU. I thought if you contributed money that you would be able to start threads and post at them all too.

Sorry for having to ask. But thank you if you can explain a little further.

If you have 5 or more posts hidden in the last 90 days, it will show. You have none. It is not all your posts, but just ones that were hidden by juries.

I have a question about the 5 post rule and repeat offenders.

One would hope that a DUer with the needed break due to 5 hidden posts would be humbled by such a short-term hiatus.

What are the consequences for repeat offenders that seem to have not gotten the message?

Do members of MIRT get to make that decision?

Best,

RDO