Another phenomenon I have noticed among rogue moderators and administrators, similarly to cognitive confirmation bias, is the tendency to side with fellow misbehaving mods/admins, just because they are friends and know each other for some time, not because the fellow mod/admin did things right.
Example: Wikipedia administrator NinjaRobotPirate defending heavily misbehaving administrator Bbb23 . More information here.
Another phenomenon I have noticed among rogue moderators and administrators, similarly to cognitive confirmation bias, is the tendency to side with fellow misbehaving mods/admins, just because they are friends and know each other for some time, not because the fellow mod/admin did things right.
Example: Wikipedia administrator *NinjaRobotPirate* defending heavily misbehaving administrator *Bbb23*. More information [here](/p/150834).
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