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Side B insists on alerting every single post by side H. As a result of the randomness of the jury selection, every now and then, a jury is made up of the most biased members of side B, and they vote to hide a totally innocuous post by a member of side H. As a result, a member of side H has fewer chances to serve on juries. Over time, side H gets completely silenced, while side B gets more and more extreme in its rhetoric and attacks.

I've been seeing this in the juries I've served on. Completely reasonable posts by side H are getting hidden, while very offensive posts by side B are getting left alone. As a result, it's getting extremely difficult to have a reasonable discussion about the primaries, even in protected topic forums. The DU leadership has to do step in and do something if they don't want to lose large numbers of members.

One solution would be to remove the rule that says that having a post hidden reduces the poster's chances of serving on juries. Another solution would be to increase the number of jury members from 7, which allows large statistical fluctuations, to something like 50.

Alternatively, DU could choose to rename itself as BU. It would certainly be a more accurate description of the content.