# Is the SDMB an echo chamber?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190 "2016-11-09T13:40:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 86

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190/86 "2016-11-10T16:09:57Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> Originally Posted by billfish678 View Post  
> Stuff like this is almost why I hope Trump wins…

> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by Colibri
> 
> Moderator Warning
> 
> On reading through this again, this is blatant trolling. This is an official warning. Do not troll in ATMB (or anywhere else on the board).
> 
> Colibro

That’s “blatant trolling” worthy of an official warning for daring to post such a thing in ATMB but in a thread started to question that judgement…

> [@So being a Republican on this board is now "trolling"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-being-a-republican-on-this-board-is-now-trolling/768250/24):
>
> They let Republicans register here now? I thought the ban filter had the Republican box checked? The next thing you know they’ll let moon landing deniers loose in GD.

comparing republicans to moon landing deniers, isn’t even worthy of a comment that it’s not the appropriate forum.

I do think most of the mods usually try to be fair, but sometimes they absolutely do fail at it, and when they do, it’s almost always on one particular side of the “chamber”.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190)._