# fluid?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluid/330332>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 10, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluid/330332 "2005-11-10T02:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fluid/330332/41 "2005-11-11T21:21:12Z")

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> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> If it became apparent that I was moderating based on my personal likes or dislikes of a poster, there would be a flood of complaints to the admins, and my attitude would be adjusted. That said, I see no reason to take all criticisms and judgements of me equally seriously. I don’t in real life take the complaints of those who bitch and moan all the time as seriously as I do those whose comments are honestly meant as constructive. Do you?

You describe a natural impulse. One would hope that as a moderator you would not let it end there; that you would make a good faith effort to reason your way through that natural impulse. A judge may not like a defendant, and personally want to string him up. But a judge must put those feelings aside and determine the outcome of a case based on an objective examination of the evidence. Claiming that you have human impulses to pre-judge a Doper’s input based on your like or dislike of that Doper certainly makes you human, but it’s still not right.

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