Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly.
MightBe has been removed as mod from both World News and Politics.
I also unpinned and removed their rule change posts.
The too long; didn’t read is they were pretty hostile in messages to both myself and little cow, and when asked to join back channel discussions in chat, refused, and instead made unilateral decisions without group discussion.
Moderating a group like this needs to be a collaborative experience, no single voice should be establishing rules without some form of common agreement.
They not only refused to engage in that collaboration, but did so in a manner not fitting for being the new person on the team.
And it is a team. I tend to make more public posts than others, because I value the transparency over privacy, but when I do so, it’s a result of a nice private chat among the group.
For now, their rule changes have been removed from both Politics and World News. Back to the stated way of doing business:
World News is for all News OUTSIDE the United States, that’s what the normal “News” is for.
Politics is for US Politics - Somehow I doubt that’s going to be an issue in 2024.
There ARE things the mod team is discussing, and any rule changes will be made as a group effort, and (hopefully!) for the better health of the group and ALL of our participants!
Happy New Year!
Just because the article doesn’t explicitly talk about the international angle doesn’t mean there isn’t one that can be implicitly understood by the majority of readers.
Reverse the logic though… if it were an article talking about climate change spreading disease in South America, that would be removed from the US Centric sites as well.
The idea is to give global stories room to breathe without the “Um, actually, in the United States see…”
We also don’t want to blur the lines between News/World News/Politics - otherwise why even have separate groups?
I would agree with that? IMO, any article talking about climate change anywhere would fall under world news due to the implications.
Regardless, I accept this is just one of those gray areas that somebody has to ultimately make a judgement call about