# Is there a left/right bias in dealing with hyperbolic posters?

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**Created:** [January 26, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-left-right-bias-in-dealing-with-hyperbolic-posters/526571 "2010-01-26T21:22:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-left-right-bias-in-dealing-with-hyperbolic-posters/526571/121 "2010-02-03T13:59:40Z")

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> [@tacoloco](#):
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> Put up or shut up.
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> This whole cloak of secrecy thing is BS.

I belive the “wise man” he said he was paraphrasing was **tomndeb** :

> [@"Proper" use of mod powers to steer a thread in GD?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proper-use-of-mod-powers-to-steer-a-thread-in-gd/526144/74):
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> I’m curious, BTW, why you picked only on **elucidator** instead of mentioning some or all of the other posters whose behavior is the same.

> [@"Proper" use of mod powers to steer a thread in GD?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proper-use-of-mod-powers-to-steer-a-thread-in-gd/526144/76):
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> I’m curious who you think CircleofWillis conspicuously left unmentioned. elucidator is certainly the king of content free partisan one liners around here, imho.

> [@"Proper" use of mod powers to steer a thread in GD?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proper-use-of-mod-powers-to-steer-a-thread-in-gd/526144/78):
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> You are welcome to your humble opinion, but I am not going to start throwing out names just to let everyone wrangle over whether they are ort are not included in my list. You will notice that I declined to name **Der Trihs** or his primary critic or the other poster who garnered speical consideration a couple of years back. I have subsequently referred to **Der Trihs** by name only because he was already the named subject of several posts.

So his whole “cloak of secrecy” is certainly mod approved so I don’t see why he should acquiesce to your demand to name names.

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