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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]tblue37
(65,403 posts)other people on the board or from using forbidden language. I have been here for 11 years and have made almost 16,000 posts without a hide. For the most part it's not that hard.
Nevertheless, as someone who serves on a LOT of juries, I have seen people being alert stalked and suffering undeserved time-outs because of that. For example, within a single hour one night I served on two juries for completely innocuous posts by nadinbrzezinski that should never have been alerted on. Of couse I voted to leave her post both times, but one of them still got a 4-3 hide. It was an outrageous hide, and I actually PM'd her to say how sorry I was that she was being alert stalked like that. But when someone becomes a target of malicious alerts, eventually the alerters will get lucky and find a jury with a majority of jurors who dislike the poster and hope to get him/her timed out or even banned.
Nadin used to post much more often, but she abandoned DU altogether for a while because of the stalking (and also because she was often directly attacked in nasty posts that somehow did *not* get hidden). Even now that she is back on DU, she posts far less frequently, and it is obvious that she does not feel safe in expressing herself.