# Moderators seem biased \[Moved to the Pit for continued inter-poster bickering\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820 "2010-06-03T19:30:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/185 "2010-06-06T03:08:43Z")

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> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> It is now!

Which means

> [@Gfactor](#):
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> From this post on, Pit rules apply.
> 
> **Gfactor**  
> Administrator

Those rules say:

> [@Revised Forum Rules for the BBQ Pit: read this before posting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revised-forum-rules-for-the-bbq-pit-read-this-before-posting/487209/1):
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> **No complaints about SDMB administration in the Pit**
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> All comments or complaints about SDMB administration should go in the About This Message Board forum, not in the Pit. Pitting of SDMB staff is permitted for views they express as ordinary posters.
> 
> \*\*Mind the moderators \*\*
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> In the Pit as in all other SDMB forums, the role of the moderators is to moderate. If we feel a thread is getting out of hand, we may tell you or the thread participants generally to back off. Such comments are simply cautions and in themselves won’t get you tossed off the board. (We reserve the right to make exceptions in extreme cases.) However, refusal to cooperate or persisting in arguing with a mod after you’ve been told to stop may result in disciplinary action. If you feel you’ve been unfairly treated, take your complaint to ATMB.  
> _Revised 3-16-2009_

Which is why I said:

> [@Gfactor](#):
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> 1. If there are unresolved issues about moderation, I’d like them to be raised in a new thread.
> 
> **Gfactor**  
> Administrator

Which means these comments:

> [@](#):
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> The moderators suck donkey balls of dead donkeys!
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> Once the moderators succeeded in turning this into a thread that was not about their one-sided biased moderating, and managed to focus it on one poster’s constant pettifogging arguing about the kinds and varieties of differences between “flattenings” and “touchenings”, they succeeded in drawing attention away from the fact that they protect the insults of posters, and discipline the much milder approaches other posters take to approaching the line of what on any given hour may be against the revolving rules.
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> Allowing one side of an argument to consistently violate the rules and the spirit of the rules without comment, like when saying that a category of poster consisting on only one poster is an “asshole” and then saying that it is against the rules to call intellectual dishonesty of stuff like “flattening” and “touchening” and or mocking a link’s professional credentials, all of which is intellectual dishonesty and should be called an equivalent of that is bias. All this thread asked for, and all the other threads on the subject have asked for is even handed rulings. Stop protecting the intellectually dishonest by allowing them to fling a categorical insult that is directed against a poster while punishing an attack on intellectually dishonest conduct.

Aren’t appropriate here. Please start a thread in ATMB if you wish to complain about moderator actions. No warning issued.

**Gfactor**  
Administrator

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