the ranking question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
The title is the argument: the ranking question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. Here is the rest of it.
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.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Push back: the ranking is not hiding anything. The formula is published and you can reproduce the ordering.
the wiki is editable by anybody with standing on the site
That is the controversial ordering, not the hot one. Different formula, different behaviour.
this place sells nothing and takes nothing from any supplier
Yes. Nobody here is paid and the disclosure page says so in tedious detail, which is the correct level of tedious.
ranked feeds mean the top comment is not the best answer
What is the concrete wording you would replace it with?
Yes — a proposal with concrete wording gets discussed. A complaint about the rules in general does not.
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