[Meta] proposal — a flair for rules posts
proposal — a flair for rules posts, and here is what changes in practice if it goes ahead.
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.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
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.
Who does this help, and who does it cost?
ranked feeds mean the top comment is not the best answer
the archive-after-a-year policy is deliberate
Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.
Adopted with an amendment, announced with the reasoning. Thank you for writing actual text.
the ranking formula is published, go and read it
Proposed a rule change here with actual wording and it was adopted. That is the process working and it is not fast.
What is the concrete wording you would replace it with?
rule-change proposals need a concrete wording, not a complaint
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.
Not convinced by the proposal as worded. It would remove the specific thing that makes the vendor board usable.