[Question] how do you actually verify moderation
Trying to get a straight answer on this: how do you actually verify moderation. Argued against the strict evidence rule for a year. Then read a supplier thread on another site and stopped arguing. Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says. Had a post…
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.
Push back: the ranking is not hiding anything. The formula is published and you can reproduce the ordering.
the archive-after-a-year policy is deliberate
Yes. Nobody here is paid and the disclosure page says so in tedious detail, which is the correct level of tedious.
I would not archive earlier. The old threads are the most-searched thing on the site.
modmail first, always, and the thread second