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Everyone with strong passions on a topic feels like the mods are against them, the moment they see any sign of a post that they agree with getting moderated.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

In reality, we ban accounts that do ideological flamewar from the other side in just the same way, and they feel like we're just as biased against them. They agree that we're terrible human beings though!

The striking thing is how the passionate partisans and ideologues resemble each other more than they resemble the rest of us. They see each other as bitter enemies, yet from my perspective they're close to isomorphic. (Edit: no, that's not a centrist defense of the squishy middle ground. It doesn't work that way.)