This is US internal news, normally we would remove it, but in the interest of discussion, I would like to know if you think this should be allowed or not.

Perhaps the rule should be better clarified as “submission should be an internationally significant event”?

Please list the specific comments from the mod log.

Due to how the current version of Lemmy UI on LW works, I can’t restore comments that has been removed by other mods, so you will have tell us which ones that we removed that you think is unfair.

This post was removed for being a video, and not an article.

In the interest of transparency, this post is restored but will be locked. Please discuss if we should revise this rule in our feedback thread.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Good point. Will definitely take into consideration.

You give me too much credit.

Check the amount of abuse Jordan Lund has gotten recently from spam accounts on our site modlog, and you should understand why I choose to make an alt instead. Among other reasons, of course.

https://lemmy.world/post/10066374

This article which is US news has been here for a day. I don’t really see the reasoning for the restriction to US News away from World News on Lemmy, since lemmy.ml allows US News on !worldnews@lemmy.ml, and the community was not overran by US news.

Non-clickbait title is harder to enforce, because it is very much a “know it when you see it” type. I’m thinking that we will ask submitters to modify their titles first in these situations instead.

Again, I would want submissions to focus on the QUALITY of the content instead of WHERE the content is published.

If you feel that an article is factually incorrect, you should present hard evidence to dispute the part that was factually incorrect instead of appealing to authorities, otherwise, who’s to say you are only agreeing to articles that are confirming to your own biases?