[Discussion] should c/progresspics stay text-only forever (yes)
Genuine question, and the title is the question: should c/progresspics stay text-only forever (yes).
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.
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.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Which rule specifically, and which part of it?
Yes. Nobody here is paid and the disclosure page says so in tedious detail, which is the correct level of tedious.
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.
Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.
Yes — a proposal with concrete wording gets discussed. A complaint about the rules in general does not.
I would not archive earlier. The old threads are the most-searched thing on the site.
Checked the sponsor disclosure because I assumed it would be vague. It was extremely specific and slightly boring.
Checked the sponsor disclosure because I assumed it would be vague.
Adding the practical note — the formula is published and you can reproduce the ordering yourself.
Careful — that would make individual moderation cases public by default, which is worse for the person complaining.