Barack Obama

to be guided by - and there isn't one.

What gets hidden or left standing on DU is simply a matter of which jurors you draw. It has nothing to do with 'community standards', or even being governed by the TOS.

For the most part, jurors will vote to hide a post whose content they politically disagree with, or because they dislike the poster. Usually both.

It has nothing to do with whether the post is, in and of itself, offensive or over-the-top. What one jury leaves standing, another jury hides, even though the posts in question are virtually identical.

So don't concern yourself with "doing better in the future". It won't matter either way.