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for removal from the site by said "special group". Mathematically the chance of a bad jury goes up damn near exponentially.

Example: If alerted on 4 times a day, and say 1 post a month is ACTUALLY questionable, one will almost surely get banned simply for being targeted. I mean "you better believe it" that some nasty buggers here like to claim people they do not like are "zombies" without a shred of IP proof or any proof other than not liking that person. Such people used to brag in meta about exactly this behavior and dance on the graves of those they harassed out of here.

I hope as part of these new improvements (and I believe they are improvements save for the bully "alert squad" loophole), they count the number of alerts, look for patterns of alerts by small groups of serial alerters that work together and if the number is high, look very closely into the validity of the alerts and ban the bullies trying to get people banned as part of a lynch mob mentality.

I could name at least five I am fairly certain do this very thing regularly, the ones that used to brag about their bullying and who spoke loosely of "zombies" while reveling in their inflated sense of power. For some reason, this mob used to always post "you better believe it" every time they successfully used their bullying power to get someone banned. It was common to see the bragging in meta, so they certainly do exist.

Those that target people and use the alert for bullying rather than what it was intended for really should face banning for such behavior, even if only to discourage such behavior.