@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Not really, no. Whether the rules come from the community or the moderators (or how much the two are interchangable), they could still contradict SE corporate's business goals.

I think that comment you link to doesn't mean what you think it does.

On another note, that's a medical site. Medical sites in the US are a bit special, there's not just policy but law that applies here. It will always be tricky for the Medical Science site.

@Mast Nevertheless, I believe that their policy should change, and that it's counterproductive to SE's business goals. However, that's not specifically what this question is about - if it was, I would have asked "Will SE corporate change Medicial Science's policies," instead of the question I've actually asked.

Also, I really wish that the downvoters would explain why they're downvoting, and provide advice on improving the question. This is an on-topic question, asking about the policies of SE corporate.

I strongly suspect the policy is to handle each site individually. As so far you can call that a policy. It's much too complicated to fit in anything more resembling an actual policy, so that's a good thing.

@RobertLongson It's not, though. It's a genuine question about SE's policies. Again, if I wanted to ask SE to force them to change their policies, I would have titled this question "SE, please change the policies of Medical Science SE". I included the link only for context, and I would be happy to remove it if necessary.

"contradict their business goals." Can you clarify what you think those business goals are?

@Mast I thought I explained that in the question, but sure, I can elaborate on that a bit more. One second.

Well, hopefully one of Meta's mods will add the status-review tag so that SE employees will be able to see it, since this question seems to have been so heavily downvoted that it's disappeared off of the list of questions visible on the main page.

That's not what that tag is for. But heavily downvoted questions on meta can simply mean disagreement. Meta-sites are a bit different from non-meta sites.

@Mast meta.stackexchange.com/questions/345032/…

"Is the question only fully answerable by an employee?" In this case, yes, that's true, so the moderators should escalate this to the SE employees.

You could try the contact page.

@Mast That page says to ask here first. I suppose I could use it to send them a link, though.

I know what it says. But it seemed you were concerned about nobody reading this now the score has dropped so far. Hence, the link.