DU Community Help

1. Feedback to posters who avoid removal: If a poster knows that a post came close to being removed, they will be more careful with future posts. This is a desirable effect.

2. Feedback to jurors: Scurrying over to find a post after it has been voted on is hit or miss. Sometimes the post is gone already, sometimes it is there and ends up removed, sometimes the post is not removed. Most people don't hang around refreshing the page. Feedback helps jurors calibrate their future votes closer to the standards and ratings of other DU members. Creates cohesion and more stability, more consistency. This is a desirable effect for DU.

To keep things simple and small, it can be a banner that appears where the you-have-mail banner appears, after all jurors have voted, perhaps with a link to thread (not post). Format could be simple like: "2 1 -- 3 1 : Post not removed", with the votes to remove ("2 1" ) are in red letters, "removed" also in red if removed, and "Post not removed" in black, perhaps, as with the "--" and the "3 1" (votes to retain).