Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

Nope. I find DU3 to be a much nicer, open place. DU2 had so many cliques, each with their own pet mod, that if you ran afoul of one of them, they'd bully-swarm you & get their buddy to delete all your posts, even if you did not violate any rules. Or they'd post stuff that blatantly violated the rules, because they knew their buds were on duty & wouldn't delete or lock their posts for hours until the next shift.

As for being alerted on for posting unpopular views, I don't think you have anything to fear. Here's the results of a recent jury I was on. I strongly disagreed with the post, but it didn't violate any rules. I was not the only juror to point that out to the alerter. (I was Juror #3 & the results came in pretty quickly)


At Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:38 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Maybe there's a plan to change it to YesHeCon.org

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

No comments added by alerter

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:48 PM, and the Jury voted 0-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I'm not going to hide a post just because I don't agree with it. If you alert on something, respect jurors' time and let us know why you're alerting.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I don't like the comment, but it is not rude, hurtful, disruptive or otherwise inappropriate. I can't vote to hide a post simply because I don't like what was said.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.