wiki — 21 things I got wrong before I got it right
Something I keep coming back to: wiki — 21 things I got wrong before I got it right.
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.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Small fix — archiving happens at a year, not at six months. It is in the published policy.
Reminder that no referral or affiliate links are permitted anywhere, from anybody, ever.
the wiki is editable by anybody with standing on the site
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.
Argued against the strict evidence rule for a year. Then read a supplier thread on another site and stopped arguing.
Edited a wiki page for the first time and nothing bad happened, which is apparently the point.