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I don’t think it is needed, considering !world@lemmy.world is still relatively slow compared to many similar comms, and the latest lemmy.ml’s Israel Palestine megathread did not get much traction and sat at 0 comments for a very long time.

There are many potential reasons that could be, such as relative lack of societal experience in a different country, trust in fellow countrymen due to language barrier, as well as loneliness due the lack of local support structure.

However, to suggest there is a “cultural tendency toward deference to authority” for the Chinese as if they are some kind of hive mind instead of individual people is discriminatory stereotyping. Please refrain from this in the future.

Sorry, lemm.ee was not federating correct until now.

I think it is OK to discuss in this context, however, given that the evidence is really circumstantial at best, it could be hard to keep it on this track of discussion without muchbsupporting evidence to back it up.

This article would be more appropriate for the politics community, since it is an opinion article from the interview of Peter Simi regarding Trump.

I would not consider this as news.

I apologize, and I do think changes are needed here.

As a first step, I have unbanned @naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca, as from the conversation detailed below, what he has done does not warrant a permanent ban at all.

I do take feedback extremely seriously, however, please allow us some time to figure out our next steps.

Note that Ukrinform is Ukranian state media.

I can tell you that the mod in the exchange with naturalgasbad and the mod who removed the comments are different.

Nevertheless, dismissing valid concerns about inconsistency in rule enforcement, threats of escalating bans, talking down to our community as children, as well as using mod power to remove valid criticism, as YoBuck has demonstrated, are all unacceptable behavior for LW moderators moving forward and will not be tolerated.

I have requested the moderators in question to apologize here, and based on the sincerity they demonstrate, I would be recommending further actions from our admin team.

Given the removal of the US only restriction here, I am hoping that we can use !politics@lemmy.world as a place that allows for analysis and op-eds, and keep !world@lemmy.world as the place that does not allow op-eds and focus solely on world news.

So I ask you, the community, to keep an eye on our community modlog to keep us honest.

It was startrek.website, right? I know about that one.

I have gone out of my way to not interact with him or even be on the same mod team as him, because some of the things he said was legitimately disturbing, and I think he needs serious help. It is my hope that our community can move past him.

With any luck, we’ll start running the contest very soon.

To add to that, personally speaking, I do not think multiple ban escalation as shown in the modlog in response to criticism of mod action in direct message is appropriate behavior for our moderation team, nor do I think it should be accepted going forward.

Given the feedback provide here, this is something we will be discussing regarding the standard of moderator behavior as well as further use of MBFC.

I don’t really get why two steady and operational fora need to change

One of the top moderator for both of these community was removed. !world@lemmy.world has had 3 different top moderators removed to this date, and the previous two times this happened was utter chaos, which is why I requested to step in this time.

And yes, US news, which has an impact on the world, should be worldnews as well. As long it’s not Internal US news, and placed with a correct country tag or title( like some suggested)

We will try to clearly define “internal US news” vs “US news” to leave no ambiguity then.

I can assure you that I was not and am not a LW admin.

I can only speak for myself, and all I can say about that is I do live in the US.

Again, I would like to try something different here, which is also the reason we’re also testing removing the US only requirement for !politics@lemmy.world, since it never made sense to me that our communities should be so US centric politics-wise when our instance and a great number of our admins are in Europe.

We will consider it.

It’s going to be very much a trial and error process, which is why the rule changes will be approached slowly and with the utmost care.

The previous logo and banner was made by YoBuck, I think he took it with him when he left.

Might want to run a logo contest/banner contest sometimes soon, if you guys are interested.

Good point. Will definitely take into consideration.