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And I made it clear those were different types of DUers. I wrote



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When I was on juries, if I didn't recognize the post from having seen it earlier, it was simple enough to find in a search to look at it in context, because I do think context is important. And again, this is something where an experienced moderator can make a better decision, probably, than a jury. Forum interactions often have a history, and it can make more sense to talk to the people involved than to see if randomly chosen DUers without context can help the situation if they're alerted to one post and that somehow happens to be key. Sometimes what gets removed isn't the worst that was said in an exchange. Sometimes simply deleting an entire subthread where a debate got too heated makes much more sense than anything else - deleting it, not penalizing people for it.

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The people I got these messages from were among the most highly respected here, and anything but shit-stirrers. It is true that they couldn't know for sure who was doing the alerting. I had no reason to disbelieve them about the alert, though.

You like the jury system, and you've explained why. I'm sure there are some times it might be more helpful than having experienced moderators.

But I also feel that communication between mods/admins and members posting stuff causing a problem can go a long way to keep problems from developing. Moderators talking to Rubyshoo early on about why her posts were causing problems might have headed off so much that went wrong. The jury system by comparison seems rather scattershot.