OK Earl G, help me understand this
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by In_The_Wind (a host of the General Discussion forum).
I don't understand why the nearly 800-response DU news/grave dancing thread is A-OK, but you've locked Flying Squirrel's poll as OT, especially in light of the fact that management (by which I mean Skinner and you) have indicated time and time again in DU 3 that this is supposed to basically be a self-governing community. NYC_SKP's comment was hidden by a jury. The system seems to have worked. But now you decide that isn't sufficient, and drop a ban on a poster who had one jury hide in over 3,000 posts. Yes, it was a vile comment, but as others have pointed out -- worse comments have been made by many posters in many contexts. Why this comment? Why now? Is the community enforcing the standards, or are you? If the answer is something along the lines of "the community, but management is the final arbiter" then I'd like to suggest clearer, more consistent application of the standards on your part, and I'd like to recommend that you and Skinner look long and hard at the toxic atmosphere that has developed. "It's the primaries" explains some of it, but not all of it -- there is an undercurrent of nastiness and incivility that has spread like a cancer in this place.
Now I know two things:
1) This is sure to be locked
2) I'm not the only person asking this
So perhaps you might come IBTL and answer the question for all to see.
Thanks in advance.
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My best guess is a tea-kettle needs only one hole to vent the steam... more than one, and it becomes something other than a tea-kettle, even though it may yet make tea. 
This is GD not a direct contact to the site owners. 
