I think it's important to discuss the state of the community every now and then - feedback for mod behaviour, what's going wrong, what's going right, what news is interesting, what news is boring, what should there be more of, what should there be less of.
Mods feel free to remove this post if it violates rules, but I think it's an important discussion to have.
Mods are a bit too trigger happy on the libs sometimes. Many are just uninformed and don't necessarily have bad intentions. This person getting banned seemed uneccessary. Having a discussion with these people would be more beneficial as long as they don't resort to using slurs.
Calling all Black people monkeys isn't ok, but calling all Chinese person slaves is?
A lot of people here are USA propaganda zombies. We should use sarcasm to drive them away
Seems pretty civil and highbrow to me, other than the occasional incursion from certain large instances.
Keep it up
There's too many boring US/China news stories. Just because an article talks about the US or China (superpowers) does not make it interesting on its own.
Personally I prefer the FT, WSJ, Foreign affairs articles where the ruling class admits things that other outlet don't e.g. where the "spy balloon" had "surveillance capabilities" i.e. weather surveillance capabilities
It is somewhat opaque how sometimes the rules apply and sometimes they don't, like news sources on rule 1, and iirc rule 3 in general. Deleting content should have the mod informing the user and the rest community what happened and have a way for the users to manage mistakes, be it either accidental rule breaks by the user or wrongful modding.
This is a good point and we'll take it under consideration. Unfortunately, sometimes we do have to make a judgement call, but if there are any particular cases you'd like to discuss please mention them here.
Sources like The Guardian, Reuters, Telegraph, CNN, BBC are sometimes allowed and sometimes removed on rule 1.
The latter case is usually evident while lurking and finding a deep long comment thread. Sometimes one user there has deleted messages and there's another's rule 3 content comments left. Apparently these cases seem to usually be mutual rule 3 but it looks like they're treated differently.
I do think we don't have a clear policy on opinion pieces and that's absolutely something we should work towards. Right now it's more of a case-by-case basis.
If you could point to some specific examples that would be great!
