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In reply to the discussion: They are getting close to silencing 1StrongBlackMan [View all]tblue37
(64,860 posts)times I was asked to serve as a juror. But I now always say yes unless I am actually ready to rush out the door, because I was on three juries in a row that were so obviously bogus alerts that I couldn't help thinking the alerter was deliberately trying to get a person's posts hidden even when they were not at all hideworthy.
Two of the posts that had been alerted on were by the same person, and that was someone who gets pile-on bullied and attacked here fairly frequently, so I felt sure the person was being alert stalked.
The other post was by a different person, but that person is also frequently bullied and attacked here, and I have often been a juror on posts by that person that should not have been alerted on, so I took the alert as evidence of possible (probable, really) alert stalking, too.
I am typically up reading in the ugly hours of the morning, since that's often my only "free" time, so I sacrifice sleep to read. That means I am asked to be a juror quite a lot. I have been appalled at how many close (4/3) votes hide innocuous posts.
So now I accept jury service as often as possible, just so I can at least attempt to protect people whose inoffensive posts are being improperly alerted on in an attempt to get them suspended.