help me understand moderation, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand moderation, I have read the wiki twice — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. 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. A rule-change…
Same view — strict evidence rules make this board slower and make the archive worth reading in three years.
Agreed that the top comment is not the best answer. The ranking optimises for early agreement.
What breaks if we make that change?
Push back: the ranking is not hiding anything. The formula is published and you can reproduce the ordering.
the disclosure is boring because it has to be
This. Modmail first is not bureaucracy; it stops individual cases turning into a public pile-on.