Didn't there used to be a forum for requesting features?

[scipan]

I would like to see, when serving on a jury, more of the posts quoted before the questionable one. I sometimes have a hard time figuring out what led up to it.

[cbabe]

1. Beta testing for next du phase coming

up so don’t know if it’s too late for requests.

But if earlg sees this I would like to request an Africa forum in the international section.

Cheers.

[scipan]

2. Foreign Affairs and National Security? I don't see an international

section.

I've been around for awhile so I know that Israel/Palestine was people virtually beating each other up for awhile and I think that's why it was separated out. But good luck. Maybe there should be a forum for each continent.

[cbabe]

3. Scroll down under places/after the states.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1006

[scipan]

4. I see it.

Nevermind.


I actually looked twice.

[cbabe]

5. Cheers.

[EarlG]

6. Hello

What you see on Jury service is the original post (OP) of the thread at the top, and the questionable post at the bottom. In between are direct replies between the OP and the questionable post (if there are any).

If the questionable post is a direct reply to the OP, you'll just see those two posts. Here's an example where the questionable post is the fifth reply in the thread, and it's a direct reply to the OP:

OP
--- Reply 5

On a Jury, that would be all you see, because the 5th reply is directly replying to the OP, so that's all that's needed.

But if there are other posts in between the OP and the questionable post, you'll see all of those posts so that you can see the direct chain of conversation. What you won't see are posts which may come above the questionable post, but don't have anything to do with it.

In the following example, Reply 8 is the questionable post, which is a reply to Reply 7, which is a reply to Reply 4, which is a reply to the OP. I've italicized the posts which are not in the direct chain of conversation:

OP
--- Reply 1
--- Reply 2
--- Reply 3
--- Reply 4
------- Reply 7
----------- Reply 8
--- Reply 5
--- Reply 6

So when serving on the Jury, you just see the OP, Reply 4, Reply 7, and Reply 8.

We decided to do it this way because lets say you have a 50-reply thread where the questionable post is the 49th reply, and it's just a direct reply to the OP calling them a name. If you're on a Jury, you definitely don't need to see the 48 replies that come before the questionable post -- in fact, they would be very distracting and people might get put off if they had to scroll through all of them.

So instead we opted for a system where you only see the direct chain of replies that links the questionable reply to the OP. That is a record of the complete conversation between the OP and the questionable post, and it should be all the information you need to make a decision when serving on a Jury.

Hope that makes sense

[scipan]

7. Thanks EarlG.

What I meant was: Aren't the posts leading up to the questionable one not fully quoted, i.e., often just the title and not the body of the post? Definitely not always. I sometimes feel like I don't have much context. You probably have the ability to look at the last time I was on jury duty to see an example. It felt like I might have judged differently if I knew more about the context. I haven't looked at the actual thread.

I can see why it may be done that way on purpose, so as not to get in the weeds of a conversation. It's just a feeling I often have.

[EarlG]

8. Ah, I see what you mean

There should be a link to the right side of each post which says "Expand" -- if you click that, you'll see the full post. If you want to expand them all at once, there's a link at the top which says "Expand all".

[scipan]

9. Oh geez, how did I miss that. Thanks. NT