Why we hide unevidenced fraud accusations and log the hiding posts 91–107

Where I part company with post #89, and it is a narrow parting.

Nothing here should be read as an accusation against a named company, and the guidelines exist so that reports remain reports.

Where somebody posts a concern, ask what would resolve it before arguing about it. Half of these threads end with a document nobody had asked for.

Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.

Adding the measurement that post #92 says would settle it.

The strongest single signal available cheaply is what happens when you ask a technical question. A quantitative answer inside a working day is difficult to fake at scale.

It is worth checking rather than assuming, which costs nothing.

I had written a reply contradicting post #94 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

The guidelines draw that line for a practical reason as much as a fair one: reports accumulate into something useful and allegations do not.

Reading it again, the caveat matters more than the finding.

Confirming post #94 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.

Anonymous accusations get hidden under the guidelines and the hiding is logged. That is not protection of suppliers; it is protection of the record.

The most useful contribution to this subcategory is a resolved case written up with the resolution, because the unresolved ones are all anyone remembers.

It reads as pedantry until the day it does not.

The strongest single signal available cheaply is what happens when you ask a technical question. A quantitative answer inside a working day is difficult to fake at scale.

I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in.

Where somebody posts a concern, ask what would resolve it before arguing about it. Half of these threads end with a document nobody had asked for.

The general answer and the answer for your case may diverge here.

Prices well below the rest of the market are a fact rather than a finding. They are worth noting and they do not establish anything on their own.

It is one reading of the data and not the only reasonable one.

Post #97 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

A stock listing that never changes and a lead time that never varies are both worth noticing. Real operations have variation in them.

The conclusion is tentative; the arithmetic underneath it is not.

The guidelines draw that line for a practical reason as much as a fair one: reports accumulate into something useful and allegations do not.

Prices well below the rest of the market are a fact rather than a finding. They are worth noting and they do not establish anything on their own.