# On the topic of moderator bias

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**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-moderator-bias/518561 "2009-11-22T20:38:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-moderator-bias/518561/67 "2009-11-30T08:37:27Z")

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> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> I agree, I think the thread should have been moderated like a normal thread in Great Debates. It should not have just been tossed into the trash, where it could turn into a free-for-all. I think there was a legitimate topic to be discussed there, even if emotion was running high (including my own.)

Really? You think that it should have stayed in GD?

Your own first post in that thread, which was also the third post in the thread as a whole, was:

> [@Four Seattle police officers ambushed and shot dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seattle-police-officers-ambushed-and-shot-dead/519369/3):
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> I just hope the suspects who did it are caught and put in jail, so they can spend the rest of their lives living like heroes among their fellow “bloods” because they “offed a pig”, getting the best contraband alcohol and drugs, “pussy” (raping smaller, weaker men) and in general being treated like warrior-kings - all on your tax dime!
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> Hooray for the justice system!

This is not a GD post. It’s a stupid rant that does not offer the slightest useful contribution to any sort of “legitimate topic.” Make no mistake, if that thread got moved to the Pit, your own contributions were largely to blame.

ETA:

I think MPSIMS is the place for it. GD threads need some sort of actual premise for debate. If someone wants to start a debate about the legal mechanisms surrounding the death penalty, and whether or not the length of time it takes to exhaust appeals is reasonable, then they can start a thread about it. But that thread was started simply to make people aware of the killing of 4 cops. It’s not a GD thread.

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