[Discussion] we are measuring moderation at the wrong time and calling it noise
Thinking out loud about this: we are measuring moderation at the wrong time and calling it noise. 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 supplier’s own storefront, marked nofollow…
What breaks if we make that change?
What breaks if we make that change?
Disagreeing with this bit: making individual cases public by default is worse for the person being moderated.
Disagreeing with this bit: making individual cases public by default is worse for the person being moderated.
chain_confirm_c is right that the strict evidence rule is the asset, not the friction.
Small fix — archiving happens at a year, not at six months. It is in the published policy.
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.
Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.