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I am glad to see you are constantly tweaking the processes here on DU. Thank you for that.


I did have an idea for a suggestion that I wanted to present to you.


We currently have the option to add people to a "jury blacklist"; a list of people that we do not want to serve on a jury about one of our posts.

However, there are some cases where when a jury decision is made and the results are transmitted that one or more of the jurors was, basically, being an asshole, to put it bluntly.

They do not judge the alert on merits, but allow personal opinions on issues or members to guide their voting instead.

They might think that a member is a troll, and not only vote to hide based on that, but then expressly state that that is reason they voted.

Or it might be because they are protective of Democratic politician, or they don't like supporters of a particular viewpoint, or whatever.

The problem is that the alertee cannot add, for example, "juror #5" to his/her blacklist because jury duty is anonymous.



Is there a way to prevent an anonymous juror from serving on a jury that is judging a particular member's post, while preserving the anonymity of the jury process?

I envision in the email the alertee gets, a hypertext link next to each juror that says "add to jury blacklist". And when that juror is added, it gets put in the blacklist as "juror #5 12Jul2013".



My 2 ¢