Just for future reference, rules for Meta questions are usually the same as Social questions. Unless the asker states in the question that they’d like it treated as if it were in the General section. :)
It’s evident that several people do feel there is favoritism or a double standard here, because this type of question is asked fairly regularly. I think a big part of the issue is that people only know when they get modded, and are not necessarily privy to all of the other instances of moderation that happen on a daily basis. It makes them think that they get modded more often, or less fairly, than others here. Despite our assurances that it just isn’t so, we never can convince some folks.
Just to give you a little perspective, the mod team gets about 100 moderation emails every day. Clearly, there is a lot of moderation going on around here, and most of it you’ll never even be aware of. So when you get modded, try to remember that your case is only one of many, many instances of moderation.