[Discussion] the wiki advice in here is 3 years out of date
the wiki advice in here is 3 years out of date. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. 3 years. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour. Submissions older than a year are archived: readable, linkable, and closed to new comments. That keeps a three-year-old thread…
the wiki is editable by anybody with standing on the site
nobody here is paid, including the moderators
the archive-after-a-year policy is deliberate
nobody here is paid, including the moderators
Agreed — concrete wording or it is not a proposal.
Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.
Feed position is a function of early votes and time. That structurally favours agreeable early answers over correct late ones, which is why sorting by controversial occasionally is worth the effort.
What breaks if we make that change?
sort by controversial occasionally, it is worth it
vendor source pages link storefronts and the link is marked
sponsor disclosure is on the about page in full