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In reply to the discussion: Can't alert on posts. [View all]EarlG
(22,645 posts)DU has a team of volunteers whose job is to keep an eye on new members to determine whether or not they are here to engage with the community productively, or whether they're here to cause trouble. If the team decides that a new member is here to cause trouble, they will ban that person. The team gets to decide this until a member reaches 100 posts -- once a member crosses that threshold, the team is no longer responsible for keeping an eye on them.
This system is separate from the Jury system. As soon as you become a DU member, all your posts are subject to the Jury system -- any of them can be alerted on and potentially removed by a Jury, if the Jury determines that a rule was broken. If you get a post removed by Jury when you are a brand new member under the 100 post threshold, there's a very high chance that you will be banned. However, the team can ban you even without a post being removed.
The team decided that you were here to cause trouble and banned your account. When they did this, all of your posts were automatically removed by our system, because you had fewer than 100 posts. I trust the team and generally defer to them when it comes to these decisions, but as the Admin I have the authority to override them. Since I had already interacted with you prior to them banning you -- you asked for help getting your account set up -- I decided that this particular ban was done in error, and that I would give you another chance. Note that this only happens very rarely.
Since then you have had a number of posts removed by Jury. You appealed some of these. I approved at least one of the appeals, but not all of them. Once a member reaches five hidden posts in any 90 day period, their account is flagged for review. Currently you have four hidden posts on your record. So if you get any more hidden posts in the next three months, and those hides are not overturned on appeal, you're done.
That is why I have been trying to give you advice about reading and following the rules, and figuring out how to fit in with the community. If you're here to talk politics, and you can do that in a relatively civil manner, then please carry on. If you cannot do that, then in fairly short order a Jury will decide that you have posted something problematic, and that will be that.