People's reactions to accusations of bias.

[jammi]

Dab, I don't think he was actually bringing up a cae of people being biased this time, but more trying to work out why people react the way they do when it's suggested.

My personal opinion on it is that the majority of people that are crying about Admin/faction conspiracies are doing it because they've just been sanctioned. People then learn to ignore the whole argument because of the tide of poorly written and worded inflammatory material that the subject is usually comprised of. Because of that, when someone seriously tries to approach the argument, readers associate the poster with the whiners (whether they realise it or not) and blank it. Devaluization of a point through association.

Other than that there's always denial. People like to think there's a perfect system, and don't want to address any issues.

Personally I don't think there's much bias (note the 'much'. the admins are still human. They're never going to be machines) in the Admin team, and certainly not enough to skew major decisions or create faction/admin conspiracies.

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