You have put a spin on this that I did not place in the original. I never claimed that only posters on the Right would see bias or that they saw bias because they were on the Right.
My point was that, based on my being accused of bias both for and against nearly all philosophical positions, I see more-of-the-same unsupported accusations as examples of confirmation bias, regardless of their philosopical leanings. That they happened, at that point, to have all come from the “minority” perspective on the SDMB meant that when I responded, the examples I used would follow that divide. In point of fact, I have also gotten repeated complaints from the “other side,” although those folks have not tended to post to the current set of ATMB threads.
The confrmation bias exists regardless who is claiming it. I have no idea how accurate pedescribe’s self-description might be, but magellan01 is the poster who has accused me, on multiple occasions, of calling him a racist or of being about to call him a racist when I have never done that in any thread or post. Shodan is the poster who recently laid out two “examples” of my purported bias. In the first, he accused me of favoring the Left because I told an entire group of posters on both sides in a debate to stop using politicians as proxies to call each other names with no reference to Shodan and in the second I was acccused of providing aid and comfort to a now banned poster whom I have been accused by posters opposed to Shodan of railroading off the SDMB. When two opposing camps are using the same example to demonstrate my “favoritism,” I think I am justified in waiting for some evidence before I simply take their words at face value.
After your post in this thread, magellan01 claimed that there is an obvious bias on the board, confusing a clear philosophical tilt among a majority of posters with a carefully never identified bias among staff. magellan01 uses the phrase “handwaving” a lot, yet his are the hands I see waggling furiously above the crowd.