Czarcasm, is it possible for a liberal to draw a warning for insulting a conservative?

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@VinylTurnip

Schoolboy crush or stalker’s obsession? Only an interminable number of these threads will reveal the truth…

I dunno.

I guess i’m one of the liberal “usual suspects” around here, but i think Oakminster has a point in this particular case.

Here’s the chronology:

12:41 p.m.

@Rigamarole

Obviously, since these terms [conservative-leaning, intellectual] are mutually exclusive.

2:29 p.m.

@Czarcasm

To the rest: The OP is looking for a conservative board along the lines of the SDMB. Please stay on topic.

3:04 p.m.

@Rigamarole

I wasn’t joking.

(A post that effective reiterates his earlier assertion that conservative and intellectual are mutually exclusive terms.)

4:32 p.m.

@Czarcasm

[Moderator Note]And I told y’all to stay on topic. If you want to play “My wing is better than your wing!” fly over to the appropriate forum. Again, this thread is for helping the OP find a conservative version of the SDMB.[/Moderator Note]

7:07 a.m.

@JThunder

Based on comments that people have made in some threads, I think that’s true.

Heck, even in this non-GD thread, you have one person saying that the terms “conservative” and “intellectual” are mutually exclusive. You also have one person sniping at this topic by saying, “A message board filled with ‘your people’ that you can sit down and have chatty posts without feeling like you have 3 eyes in your forehead?” (an extremely unfair characterization, since the thread is specifically about looking for more balanced discussion). I wish I could say that these were isolated incidents, but I’ve been here long enough to know that they aren’t.

I’m no surprised that many conservatives choose to shy away from these discussions, given the general tenor of these responses.

7:28 a.m.

@Czarcasm

[Moderator Warning]You’ve also been here long enough to know to stop hijacking a thread, especially after a Moderator has posted notes about the problem. Infraction issued.[/Moderator Warning]

As far as i can tell, Rigamarole made a direct assertion that conservative and intellectual are incompatible terms, made the same assertion again after a moderator had told everyone to stay on topic, and received a Moderator Note for it.

JThunder made no claims about the intelligence or intellectual capacity of anyone, but did make some off-topic general remarks about the moderation of the board, and received an explicit Moderator Warning, including the words “Infraction issued.”

I’m not arguing that either of these sins was especially heinous. In fact, if they had both passed with nothing more than an admonition to keep on track, then i wouldn’t have cared. But it seems to me that, whether or not they were egregious breaches of the rules, they were both about equally bad, and yet only one received an official warning or infraction.

I have no bone to pick with Rigamarole, and nor do i particularly want him to receive a warning. I feel similarly about JThunder. This isn’t about them. It’s about the fact that we should be able to expect a certain amount of consistency in the way this place is moderated, and it looks rather bad when moderators appear to give more breaks to people who share their political outlook. Czarcasm, even if this wasn’t what you intended, it certainly could appear that way.