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c/meta·posted 2 months ago by u/joaquin_ivaturi

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about rules are guesswork

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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about rules are guesswork — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.

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.

Proposed a rule change here with actual wording and it was adopted. That is the process working and it is not fast.

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.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/marisol_frisk70 points·2 months ago

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.

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u/joaquin_ivaturiOP51 points·2 months ago

The evidence standard on the vendor boards requires a document, a date or a named service behind any claim about a supplier.

Disagreeing with this bit: making individual cases public by default is worse for the person being moderated.

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u/yannick_petrov42 points·2 months ago

removals get explained publicly where the rule allows it

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u/emeka_chowdhury54 points·2 months ago

nobody here is paid, including the moderators

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u/blunt_coldbox2917 points·2 months ago

sponsor disclosure is on the about page in full

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u/divya_bakken5 points·2 months ago

ranked feeds mean the top comment is not the best answer

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u/viktor_laurent4 points·2 months ago

What would the new rule do to the vendor evidence standard?

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u/ismael_varga35 points·2 months ago

Right, and the storefront links on source pages are marked and disclosed, which is the honest way to do it.

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u/runa_grimaldi37 points·2 months ago

sort by controversial occasionally, it is worth it

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