[Meta] proposal — a flair for ranking posts
Putting this to the board: proposal — a flair for ranking posts. Submissions older than a year are archived: readable, linkable, and closed to new comments. That keeps a three-year-old thread from being reopened with a reply nobody will see in context. Vendor source pages carry an outbound link to the supplier’s own…
The ranking functions are published: the hot ordering combines score magnitude with age, and the controversial ordering weights total volume by the balance between up and down votes. Both are reproducible from the numbers on each submission.
Have you read the published formula, genuinely asking?
Right, and the storefront links on source pages are marked and disclosed, which is the honest way to do it.
nobody here is paid, including the moderators
What would the new rule do to the vendor evidence standard?
Have you taken this to modmail first?
Checked the sponsor disclosure because I assumed it would be vague. It was extremely specific and slightly boring.