[Question] how do you actually verify disclosure
The title is the whole question — how do you actually verify disclosure — but here is why I am asking.
A rule-change proposal needs replacement wording because that is what can be evaluated. Without it there is nothing to compare against the current text.
Moderation of individual cases happens in modmail rather than in threads, because a public discussion of one person’s removal is worse for that person than a private one.
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.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
modmail first, always, and the thread second
Had a post removed, went to modmail, got a specific explanation and disagreed with it politely. It stayed removed and I understood why.
That is a complaint rather than a proposal. Bring wording and it can actually be discussed.
modmail first, always, and the thread second
RetaAndRegret2 is right that the strict evidence rule is the asset, not the friction.
Moved to modmail. Individual removals get a specific answer there rather than a public thread.
The evidence standard on the vendor boards requires a document, a date or a named service behind any claim about a supplier. It is what makes those threads worth reading years later.
Yes — a proposal with concrete wording gets discussed. A complaint about the rules in general does not.
Yes. Nobody here is paid and the disclosure page says so in tedious detail, which is the correct level of tedious.
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.
Vendor source pages carry an outbound link to the supplier’s own storefront, marked nofollow and sponsored, disclosed on the page and again on the funding page. Nothing is received for it.