2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Simple solution Skinner, a POLL, should Skinner "Call It"??? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)There are three main reaosns someone gets a post hidden on DU.
#1: You acted like an asshole, and got penalized
#2: You acted like an asshole, and got penalized
#3: You acted like an asshole, and got penalized
If there were such rampant, overt abuse of the system, as is often claimed, then with the proportions being as they are on DU, I'd have expected to see, well, absolutely no Hillary supporters posting. Seriously, by Skinner's measure, 80% of DU supports Bernie. So if all these nefarious BernieBros were going to alert-hunt Hilary supporters into the ground, it would have happened.
It didn't.
No, some very prolific trolls who support clinton got alerted on successfully enough that they caught a time-out period. The vast majority of Clinton supporters - including the bulk of very prolific posters - saw no such penalization because, as annoying as htey might be, they actually managed to not be assholes.
And now we look back at all these gentle lambs, these long-suffering martyrs, and we see that their transparency lists are lugging around 15+ hides, the overwhelming bulk of which are absolutely deserved, and perhaps were it not primary season, would have earned admin bans - And it's worth noting that there ARE Bernie supporters who HAVE been banned for less than some of this crap.
People got time-outs because they violated the community standards enough times to earn one. It's how it works. it's how it's always worked. Maybe if they could post without being assholes, like so many of their fellows triumphantly accomplished, they wouldn't get hides.