Moderation philosophy posts started out as an exercise by myself to put down some of my thoughts on running communities that I'd learned over the years. As they continued I started to more heavily involve the other admins in the writing and brainstorming. This most recent post involved a lot of moderator voices as well, which is super exciting! This is a community, and we want the voices at all levels to represent the community and how it's run.

This is probably the first of several posts on moderation philosophy, how we make decisions, and an exercise to bring additional transparency to how we operate.

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[–] kalanggam@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not to mention that thread about Affirmative Action, in which the comments seemed to espouse a purely Black point of view, not taking into account how it may have a positive effect on Asian admissions, and completely ignoring the discussion of how admissions should be merit-based no matter what

Honestly, there was no shortage of people arguing the type of position you're discussing, but if you see a lack of it, you're more than welcome to post/comment.

I don’t have high hopes for any sort of meaningful discussion happening here.

Then have discussion elsewhere, nobody is forcing you to post or participate here. You already said yourself that you have an account on another instance because you feel that way. There's no need to come here and wax poetic about how you don't see any "real discussion" happening, and doing so isn't going to dramatically alter moderation policy. If you disagree with a discussion, again, feel free to post or comment. If you don't think any real discussion will come of that or you disagree with moderation policy, you're welcome to find community elsewhere.

As an aside:

Asian students [...] historically place a much higher importance on education than the rest of the world

This isn't really historical so much as it is stereotyping. Asian people aren't a monolith. We don't all align culturally, and we don't all have the same attitudes. We aren't all treated the same as other Asian people, nor do people in Asian diasporas all have the same socioeconomic outcomes.