I was just sitting at my computer, watching the main site when [this question pops up](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/54681/do-the-moderators-expect-me-to-kowtow-to-protected-groups)(now deleted, need 2,000+ rep to view). I open it up, read it, downvoted, flagged it, and then the rest can be seen in the comments. I thought about responding again, but decided I didn't want to make it any worse and so just didn't do anything. It was deleted a few minutes later by motosubatsu.

But now I feel like I just chased away a possible Writing SE user and destroyed a possibly salvageable situation, not something I'm trying or want to do.

Simple question for next time something like this happens;

If there was a better way to handle that, then what was it? How would you have gone about resolving that?