three years of meta threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Something I keep coming back to: three years of meta threads, summarised so you do not have to read them.
Had a post removed, went to modmail, got a specific explanation and disagreed with it politely. It stayed removed and I understood why.
Sorted by controversial for a week and found four of the best threads I have read here.
Argued against the strict evidence rule for a year. Then read a supplier thread on another site and stopped arguing.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Agreed. Publishing the ranking formula is the difference between a feed and a black box, and it costs nothing to do.
I would not archive earlier. The old threads are the most-searched thing on the site.
I would not archive earlier.
Agreed — concrete wording or it is not a proposal.
the ranking formula is published, go and read it
Agreed.
Disagreeing with this bit: making individual cases public by default is worse for the person being moderated.
no referral links, no affiliate links, not once
Careful — that would make individual moderation cases public by default, which is worse for the person complaining.
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.
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That is a complaint rather than a proposal. Bring wording and it can actually be discussed.
sponsor disclosure is on the about page in full
Reminder that no referral or affiliate links are permitted anywhere, from anybody, ever.
Checked the sponsor disclosure because I assumed it would be vague. It was extremely specific and slightly boring.
this place sells nothing and takes nothing from any supplier
nobody here is paid, including the moderators
sort by controversial occasionally, it is worth it
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