[Meta] the moderation rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the moderation rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Nothing about this affects the ranking maths, before anyone asks. Funding and links, in full, because the question deserves a straight answer. Sponsor units are labelled as sponsored. Each vendor source page carries one outbound link to that…
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.
Adopted with an amendment, announced with the reasoning. Thank you for writing actual text.
Complained about a rule without proposing anything and was politely pointed at this page. Fair.
Same view — strict evidence rules make this board slower and make the archive worth reading in three years.
Argued against the strict evidence rule for a year. Then read a supplier thread on another site and stopped arguing.
I would not archive earlier. The old threads are the most-searched thing on the site.
Agreed. Publishing the ranking formula is the difference between a feed and a black box, and it costs nothing to do.
the wiki is editable by anybody with standing on the site
evidence rules are strict here on purpose