Now, each of these volunteers is a human being with their own likes and dislikes. That doesn't necessarily mean that they perform their Mudcat chores in a biased way.

It doesn't necessarily mean they do not.

Our forum may be more prepared to take your assertion that they were not acting in a biased way - on trust, if our forum were trusted enough to be to know who these 'mods' are and how many of them there are.