# Terr and BrainGlutton

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terr-and-brainglutton/733406>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 3, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terr-and-brainglutton/733406 "2015-10-03T20:59:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terr-and-brainglutton/733406/133 "2015-10-05T18:08:13Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> OK, now that we have the facts, please explain how that mod shows unfair bias against a conservative.

I did something similar as a poster:

> **[Look for the union label](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=670833)**
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> Another example of the ill-effects that come from powerful unions. When a union’s territory is so jealously guarded that non-union help is refused even under these circumstances, the union influence is not benign. It’s toxic.

The OP to that thread was me credulously repeating a story about union crews in territory damaged by Hurricane Sandy turning away crews sent to help repair because they were non-union. I accurately reported the story from my source, which was itself a television station (and NOT a Fox station, I might add).

But the source was wrong. Deceptive.

And there a couple of responses to me:

> [@Look for the union label](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-for-the-union-label/639644/15):
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> Bricker needs to stick to what he is good at, and leave spreading baseless propaganda to professionals like Fox News.

> [@Look for the union label](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-for-the-union-label/639644/16):
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> Bricker spreading falsehoods about unions? Say it ain’t so.

Those posters did not receive warnings. The thread was moved to the Pit and there was a general admonition, not directed by name at anyone:

> [@Look for the union label](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-for-the-union-label/639644/25):
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> I have moved this thread to the Pit. But I have a couple of quick points to make here - the most obvious being that if a thread is not in the Pit, you have to follow the rules of the forum it’s actually in even if you’re sure it’s going to become a Pitting. That means personal comments are not allowed and flaming of other posters is not allowed.

That was certainly appropriate mod action.

I, however, said something that I think is clearly more mild and less accusatory than “spreading falsehoods” and got warned.

In my opinion, that’s how it works. The conservative posters get a bit less leeway, and thus functionally identical behavior means that conservative posters accumulate mod notes where liberals would get general admonitions; conservative posters get warnings where liberals doing the same type of thing get mod notes; conservative posters get suspended for a month while liberal posters get two weeks; and then when banning is discussed, what a surprise! It’s justified based on number of warnings, and length of previous suspensions.

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