La xinga wrote:Well, the last couple reports on moderation are on right-wing people, is that mod-bias, or right-wingers break the rule more often?
Or am I just dumb at the forums and can't tell who's right-wing or who's left-wing?
Reports don't reflect moderator bias, they reflect user bias.
Actions taken on reports reflect moderator bias. Looking at all of the unique reports (so not megathreads like spam/etc, since those rarely have any biased actions) on the last page of moderation, action was taken on the following users:
It should be noted that the majority of threads on the first page resulted in no explicit moderation action. Users who were reported with no action taken are as follows:
- Rugged Ruggedists (reported prior to being spotted as DOS, no action taken on that report)
- Alcala-Cordel
- Hrythingland
- Federal Republic Of America And The Cari
- Purpelia
- Eurasies
So now we should figure out the political orientations of these users. I'll use a combination of personal observations and information in signatures to determine this.
- Washington Resistance Army - Broadly authoritarian, centrist or center left economically.
- Hrythingland - unclear. Self-proclaimed ethno-nationalist, but no clues whatsoever that I can find as to authoritarian/libertarian leanings or economic opinions and I haven't personally spoken to that user.
- Saranidia - Broadly center-left.
- North German Realm - Anarchist, last I checked.
- Cekoviu - Authoritarian leftist.
- Rugged Ruggedists - Unclear, since DOS.
- United England n Wales - Centrist.
- Alcala-Cordel - Leftlib.
- Federal Republic Of America And The Cari - Apparently centrist.
- Purpelia - Authright or authcenter, not sure.
- Eurasies - Unclear
Now, let's map moderation decisions by political position. We will collect users of a particular political persuasion and examine the ratio of actionable reports to non-actionable reports. They map onto the political spectrum like this (redder = higher ratio):
As it turns out, there were no reports against clearly economically right-wing users
period on the last page, much less any actionable ones. If anything, this would indicate that moderation applies harsher-than-average judgment to economically left-wing users and lighter-than-average to centrists. So your perception seems to be severely skewed here.
(I should note that the trends above are not actually fair to use as representative, as they are from such a small sample size; to be clear, I am making no point about the actual biases of moderation.)
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:17 pm