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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)They are filled with spam, porn links, racism, homophobia, and misogyny. Look at the Yahoo groups, for example. There is no discussion for that reason. That is what you are advocating. There are plenty of places you can get your fill of that. DU is not supposed to be one of them. At any rate, the reason the administrators won't abolish the jury system is not the level of hides but because it frees up their time. That ship has sailed. The jury system allows far more right-wing hate speech than existed under the system of moderators, and that is usually what people mean when they talk about free speech. I've seen that shit a million times. Free speech requires not only free expression of homophobia, racism, and misogyny, it requires censoring and banning anyone critical of such views.
You agreed to TOS when you signed up a whole three months ago. The jury system had been effect three years at that point. If you didn't want to abide by that, you shouldn't have made an account. Now you are pissed off there isn't enough "freedom" to keep you happy. Too bad. There are plenty of places you can go for that. Try Discussionist. While they have juries, there is plenty of contempt for women, LGBT Americans, and people of color. Or there is always Yahoo or Stormfront. There are plenty of places you can go to express what you feel you can't say here.