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OneGrassRoot

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14. After a few times, I opted out of serving on a jury...
Thu Dec 29, 2011, 07:15 AM
Dec 2011

I feel bad about doing that, but I realized something very important: Whether or not it's "right" or "wrong," it seems that in the cases I was asked to judge, the incident in question wasn't the only factor contributing to other jurors' decisions. They took a poster's history into account, often with the post in question being the final straw for them.

I am not aware of other posters' history. Perhaps I would have voted differently if I was more aware of their tendencies and history, but I'm simply not, so I was often at odds with other jurors as I was solely focused on the post in question.

I think this is one reason a moderator system works best; they do tend to be aware of someone's history, previous warnings, etc. to discuss amongst themselves. Random, myriad jurors make this difficult.

It just felt like pure ick to me. I greatly admire moderators.

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I think so, too. OneGrassRoot Dec 2011 #1
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After a few times, I opted out of serving on a jury... OneGrassRoot Dec 2011 #14
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