HRs, purity trolls, what's wrong, and how to fix it

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Wednesday August 03, 2011 · 9:36 AM PDT

2011/08/03 · 09:36

The purpose of that Hidden link next to to comments link was to allow HRs to be reviewed. If a comment gets two HRs, and that's an motion and a second, that comment is put under a temporary injunction while being posted to the recently hidden list, where trusted users view it, determine if it should have been HRed or not, and uprate if necessary.

Instead, it's used voyeuristically to view the worst our community has to offer, pile on HRs, and dredge up the worst comments a person can find to post in front of everyone in a diary proclaiming that dKos is filled with the kind of filth that only indiscriminate bannings can clean up.

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I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department...

22 votes Vote Now!

I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department...

Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill her blood!

1 vote

I like the idea of anonymous posting

2 votes

...less HRs

5 votes

...get rid of view recently hidden comments

1 vote

...something else

1 vote

...all of the above

1 vote

This isn't as big a problem as the diarist makes it out to be

11 votes

Security Scanners, X-rays, and Cancer

eigenlambda

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 4:48 PM PDT

2011/06/27 · 16:48

One of the worst things about the hysteria concerning radiation is how it seems to preclude a reasonable assessment of risk. Medical scanners, which are intended to save the life of the person receiving radiation, are deemed okay, and are strictly regulated and independently tested. Security scanners are ignored, because they're at once perceived as necessary and at the same time perceived as unconscionable.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center recently got copies of documents through FOIA requests that suggest that TSA employees have claimed to have discovered cancer clusters within their ranks, presumably due to excessive exposure to X-rays from the security scanners. They were, naturally, ignored, and not issued dosimeters. Regardless of whether this particular instance is found to be true, the fact remains that security scanners are tested for compliance by the companies that sell them, which is simply asking for trouble.

eigenlambda

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Monday December 27, 2010 · 5:58 PM PST

2010/12/27 · 17:58

By now we've all heard that the pope said that back in the '70s people didn't know that adults sexing children was a problem. Or maybe he said that the women's liberation movement coupled with moral relativism prevented people from understanding the absolute evil of pedophilia. This former Catholic says "whatever".

Follow me below the fold for why.

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Did he really blame the '70s for the coverups of sex abuse that he participated in?

10 votes

His sad devotion to that ancient religion couldn't conjure up a priesthood that wouldn't abuse children, and hasn't helped him dodge the fallout

22 votes

Eigenlambda should stop getting his history from Star Wars. Several parts are out of place or missing.

7 votes

When war crimes go unpunished: reflections on Sabra and Shatila

eigenlambda

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Thursday September 16, 2010 · 5:32 PM PDT

2010/09/16 · 17:32

Twenty-eight years ago today, there was a civil war in Lebanon. Israel, a bordering power, was intervening; Beirut, the Lebanese capital, was under occupation by Israeli forces. The United States was also intervening in this war; Reagan later pulled out after a truck bombing at a Marine base, the same kind of thing that Clinton was called weak for. In Beirut there were camps filled with refugees, both internal Lebanese refugees from the war and refugees who had been driven out of Palestine by Israeli settlers over the previous forty years. The IDF had an agreement with the United States to not occupy West Beirut, where the camps of Sabra and Shatila were located. Breaking this agreement, the IDF drove the PLO out of Beirut and put some soldiers controlling the entrances and exits. Then, on the night of September 16th, a Lebanese Maronite Christian militia went into the Sabra and Shatila camps in IDF-supplied vehicles while Israeli troops guarded the exits and fired flares to provide lighting. Over the course of the next two days, the Phalagists murdered thousands of refugees.

Follow below the fold to discover what happened next in When War Crimes Go Unpunished.

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Should war crimes be prosecuted?

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Should war crimes be prosecuted?

No- it would be too divisive and may result in electoral losses

3 votes

Yes- for posterity's sake, we must not allow this precedent to stand

60 votes

Pie- however unpleasant, the leaders of Israel and the United States must have the authority to protect themselves from external and internal threats by whatever means they deem necessary

6 votes

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