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In reply to the discussion: Should Democratic Underground switch to seven-person juries? [View all]winter is coming
(11,785 posts)A lot of the juries I serve on are food fights between members of various entrenched factions who apparently get their daily exercise slagging each other on DU. I don't really care who belongs to which faction or what their multiyear history may be -- if it's vindictive, hostile shit that makes DU suck, I'm going to vote to hide it.
If juror service ever becomes "transparent", I will cease being a juror, because nobody needs the aggravation of some asshat following them around DU attacking them for hiding their posts. I expect a fair number of DUers feel the same way, so the likely result of transparency would be that the juror pool would have lots of partisans hoping for a chance to ding their enemies, but not very many nonaligned DUers. How could that possibly result in a better system?