# Colibri's "Political" moderation

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**Created:** [December 9, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-political-moderation/739880 "2015-12-09T00:58:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibris-political-moderation/739880/24 "2015-12-09T04:15:15Z")

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It’s also nice, **Colibri** , to see your consistency on this.

Here’s a post you made a bit earlier today:

> [@Has a US President ever been refused service at a business?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-us-president-ever-been-refused-service-at-a-business/739829/16):
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> **Moderator Note**
> 
> As **engineer\_comp\_geek** already said, let’s keep political commentary out of this. (And yes, I recognize you are being sarcastic.) No warning issued.
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> Colibri  
> General Questions Moderator

So, another mod had explicitly ordered people to keep political shots out of GQ, and 50 minutes after that order, a poster took a political shot in direct response to the post that received the admonition.

And in that case, it was “No warning issued” from you.

Were you in a better mood at that time? Had you just had lunch? Maybe a beer? Was there something else that distinguished these basically identical cases, and justified a warning for one poster and no warning for the other?

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