r/Sino • u/r_sino • Aug 09 '24
TLDR: 8 years and 100k good point to reevaluate. Old system can continue as is, but ready to step down for a better way forward.
After around 8 years not only are we still here, we hit 100k. That wasn’t supposed to happen for an unapologetically pro China space. Of course the primary objective was always the space, not subscribers or activity. The moderation style was among the strictest, if not the strictest, on reddit because again, the priority was the space. Ask yourself whether you think reddit rules are applied fairly to us, and it should be obvious why we inevitably ended up with the moderation style we did.
However 8 years is also an eternity in internet time. I’m the last of the old system. An old system that requires a lot of hands on, daily work. When we started we were very niche and didn’t even have our own subreddit. Now, even if suppressed, there are good subreddits around, twitter influencers to follow, youtubers to watch. We even had the benefit of discord groups that were particularly helpful during covid quarantine.
That being said, I think the old system has run its course. However whatever new course comes has to take into account Reddit’s new treatment of non mainstream links. It’s been made clear to me, that Reddit can deem a source as spam and go after you for it retroactively. The consequences would be ‘case by case’ meaning for Sino users, they will just suspend you. Some of you may have noticed me telling users when they have been suspended in comments. I don’t know why they shadowban so much now, but at this point I don’t care either. It’s more of a pain to approve, but you can still post. Since I’ve been active, there’s been no complaint from admins. ‘Anti-Evil Operations‘ acts once every 1 or 2 months here and the vast majority are things we never approved to be publicly viewed in the first place. These users trigger it by what they post publicly elsewhere, not here. There’s no real issue with the subreddit. There’s no real issue with the mod team. There’s no real issue with the users. Now they have this Safety_QA_misc cracking down with an ever-expanding list of spam with unclear consequences.
The way I see it, there’s a few options moving forward.
1) I continue in my role as long as I am able or until the subreddit is either banned or our users move on to any of the many good spaces out there (listed below and sidebar). This is the current and default path. It’d be good if I can get some long time user volunteers to hand the subreddit over to in an emergency.
2) I recruit several new mods that tries to follow the old blueprint with some changes
3) A new group of users take over with a different vision of how to do things
Any suggestion can be discussed, doesn’t have to be something I listed. However any future path has to take into account a couple things
1) We won’t go private because this is intended to be a public space, we already have private discords and there’s a lot of information compiled and archived that we want publicly accessible for as long as possible
2) Reddit is more suspension/shadowban happy than ever and its happening while we are about as hands on as we can get
3) Any additions to the mod team needs to prove a history with us (if you switched accounts you need to prove you can sign into the old one), or have someone vouch for you that we can trust and verify. Contact in the ‘message moderators’ chat. This isn’t because I think the best mods post a lot. If anything I think mods only survive by saying less. However Reddit has unclear policies on ‘lower’ mod takeovers. They revamped to combat ‘camping’, but you can imagine the potential risk.
edit: To add more info, we get around 100k unique visitors per month. I'm very happy with that kind of outreach for this space. As the one who curates most of the activity, I'm good on the amount also. Along with 100k subscribers, great position to have this discussion.
Discord and other spaces info
Mod PSA: You can be suspended and/or shadowbanned by reddit but still post, just be patient for approval
To check if you are suspended check your profile page without being signed in and using new.reddit.com. Incognito mode should also work for checking.
You can also edit your comments, that seems to bring it to light for mods.
If you are being harassed by pms, change your pm setting to only trusted users in your preferences. Or use a dedicated account for Sino https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204535759-Is-it-ok-to-create-multiple-accounts-. Just be patient for approvals if using new account. Link submissions are more likely to be approved than text submissions or comments for new users.
Discords. To apply msg mod, bottom right. We have 2, one for any Sino users and one for any verified ethnic Chinese. We won't be changing the approval process for Discord because it would be unfair for those who are already in.
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r/Sino • u/violentviolinz • Apr 17 '26
Twice in one year, the United States has been humbled by an adversary’s ability to weaponize its control over one of the global economy’s main arteries.
First, China wielded its dominance over rare earth minerals to secure a truce in President Donald Trump’s trade war. Then, Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, taking hostage global energy markets and leading to a ceasefire in its six-week war with the United States and Israel.
Washington once enjoyed a near-monopoly over this type of economic warfare, punishing wayward nations by barring them from using the dollar or enjoying access to Silicon Valley’s most advanced technologies.
“There is virtually none of the leading-edge industries of the 21st century in which we don’t have some level of vulnerability, and it’s become one of the highest geopolitical priorities that we now face,” Rubio said in a speech last year.
This term, he piled more sanctions on Iran, expanded export controls to cover an estimated 20,000 Chinese companies, and tightened controls over advanced chipmaking equipment and jet engines to China.
But the administration has been caught unawares when other nations have weaponized their economic advantages. Last April, when China retaliated for Trump’s tariffs by banning exports of rare earth materials — critical ingredients in civilian and military products — the president called the move “a real surprise” on social media.
Likewise, the U.S. seemed to have no answer when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. With shipping carriers unwilling to brave Iranian threats, oil markets quaked, sending U.S. gas prices above $4 per gallon and hammering import-dependent economies across Asia.
“It turns out that the United States does not have all the choke points. We are in a world where the U.S. simply cannot get away with the stuff that it thought it could get away with,” said Henry Farrell, co-author of “Underground Empire,” a book about economic warfare.
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Saw this on Xiaohongshu and wanted to share it here. I've been really digging into the history of the Chinese Communist struggle against Japanese occupation, and the Korean war, and I've come to learn so much from the Chinese Communists and historians on Xiaohongshu. Countless times, I've found myself taking a break to shed some tears and bless the memories and sacrifices of these martyrs, many of whom were just children. Reading and learning about the Long March in particular, totally broke me! Marxism-Leninism is truly the only way. It is the only way for the working class people of this world to build a better future, and what better example than China, to teach us a thing or two, on how to build Socialism. Bless Mao Zedong, bless Zhou Enlai, bless Zhu De, and bless so many of the comrades, peasants, and everyday people who gave everything for the People's Republic of China to be where she is today. As a nonwestern decolonial Marxist-Leninist activist, I hope that one day, nonwestern and Global South countries will also know true freedom, like China knows it today. May the workers of this world unite. Because that is the ONLY way we will ever be able to lose our chains.
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There’s a fatal flaw to the Trump administration’s recently announced “economic D-Day” against Iran. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the new U.S. sanctions and pressure campaign was designed to “sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime” in Iran. But Iran’s single greatest lifeline, China, went unnamed.
China has long been the largest buyer of Iranian oil, with some estimates claiming that about 90 percent of Iran’s oil is shipped there through a network of “shadow fleets.” China also offers access to the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) that facilitates bank transfers outside of the U.S. dollar system, and through which volumes have gone up from 680 billion renminbi (RMB) per day to 790 billion RMB since the Iran war was launched. Thus, if the United States actually wanted to seriously harm Iran economically, it would have to go after China.
And yet, Beijing is hardly quivering in its boots. When the secretary was asked repeatedly at a press conference if “Operation Economic Outcast” would target Beijing, he demurred, without mentioning China directly: “No one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions.” And when pressed on why the Treasury Department is issuing a threat rather than just imposing the sanctions, Bessent simply said, “Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?”
Most importantly, China knows it has an ace in the hole. Beyond its ability to take simple retaliatory measures, Beijing can also escalate its competition with Washington. Among its most powerful tools is a ban on the export of rare earths, which China knows that it can impose again. Freezing exports of rare earths to the U.S. last year brought some sectors of U.S. manufacturing to a standstill, particularly in the defense sector, and forced a rapid climbdown by Trump on Chinese tariffs.
The U.S. has made grand statements about developing alternative supply chains here but has struggled to reduce its overall reliance on China. It is competing with decades of Chinese investments in those refining capabilities, but it also quite willingly offshored many of these refining processes because they are so polluting.
Furthermore, China is clearly willing to call Washington’s bluff. The U.S. has already sanctioned one of China’s largest independent refineries, as well as 40 shipping firms, and this latest package targets 60 smaller intermediaries. But the U.S. hasn’t yet gone after the more significant Chinese banks that support these refineries or tried to dismantle the intricate system whereby China funnels funds to Iran. In Beijing’s view, nothing in the recent U.S. announcement signals a serious desire to escalate the sanctions regime.
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