Someone commented that sanctions wouldn’t work on China because sanctions were too harsh, and that the US should treat China as a parent does a child, educating them and encouraging them toward US goals so that sanctions were unnecessary.
I pointed out that China and the US do not remotely have a paternal relationship and a culturally American call to China would not elicit a culturally American response from China because of how different the cultures are.
Got banned for “Orientalism”.
I agree from if the goal is tech support, but I also appreciate having discussions about instance-admins in a place they do not ultimately control.
Its about proper escalation IMO.
A bad moderator should be dealt with by the local administrators. Bad administrators you can escalate to other admins and bring up the possibility of defederation, but that’s really the only move remaining once it gets to admin vs admin level.
So yeah, local-admins handling the situation would be preferred.
This sums up why I’m keeping this up. Potentially to be locked later.