I don't want to go to the details and put forward how Greg's biased point of view is affecting his job as a forum moderator, it would be absolutely unnecessary, it is not about this or that evidence supporting or refuting my concerns, it is about a general situation we are dealing with: a conflict of interests.
But.. But.. it is.. the only thing that matters... (andd oh so slightly)?
I think we've had this discussion in the political section as well a while ago where, i'm not sure who it was, maybe TECSHARE? accused mods of bias, mainly due to them supposedly (maybe they were, i'm not sure, it doesn't matter anyway.) being on the opposite end of his political spectrum, and thus would have some sort of bias. Nothing ever came off of it, (and perhaps, probably rightfully so, as almost everyone has their own opinion about certain things..?), so good luck with this attempt of yours where you can't even conclude *subjective* examples of bias.
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I don't see what someone's political affiliation alone has to do with his functioning as a moderator (or any public function really..). Is he trashing all of your Bitcoin cash/contrarian topics? No, right?
This thread to me feels like you just want to be some sort of contrarian again for attention, but that might just be me.
That's because you are low functioning. I mean the point of moderation is clearly to ensure the optimal information is retained and anything net negative is removed. So of course if they have strong political views that prevent that taking place then IT MATTERS. There will always be a small influence of bias that is impossible to avoid but the extreme moderation bias that is undeniably taking place in some areas of the forum need to be taken in hand.
Speculating on the OPs motives for creating the thread especially in such a negative light is a poor reflection on you not him.
His point has some validity and should be freely discussed without people screaming trolling and making other speculations regarding his motives. I just don't think you can remove people like GM from the tech forums as a mod (even if there are some clear examples of bias) nowhere near as easily as removing lower functioning mods from other less important sections of the board. This would be a complex decision and to balance things up adding someone of equal or near the same skill level with views that have previously varied from GM's.
The problem with meta is people tend to want to close down ANY discussions that challenge the status quo regardless of their REAL merit.
We voiced our counter opinion to his own, and suggested something different, and he took the time to evaluate and merit, showing he has a far more open mind (and clearly far more advanced mind) that your own.