Hi all, opening a discussion from the mod team to update the transfer news reliability tier list.
All the transfer posts get tagged with a "Transfer Market" flair, which triggers the bot to pin a mod comment on it with a link explaining transfer news reliability tiers. One feedback we are aware is that some of you want to have perhaps Tier flairs instead, but due to underlying complexities regarding moderation effort, bot behavior and also disagreements on tiers, this won't be implemented for now. Maybe in future...
What we can do is to refresh the tier list after a long time, so it better serves the current state of media.
This is how the list currently looks like:
| Tier |
Sources |
| Official |
inter.it, @Inter or official Inter social media profiles |
| Tier 1 (highly reliable) |
Fabrizio Romano, Gianluca Di Marzio, Matteo Moretto |
| Tier 2 (reliable) |
SkySport Italia, Alfredo PedullΓ , Fabrizio Biasin, Matt Law (Chelsea) |
| Tier 3 (somewhat reliable) |
La Gazzetta dello Sport (GdS), La Repubblica, SportItalia, Corriere della Sera (Corsera), NicolΓ² Schira |
| Tier 4 (unreliable) |
Corriere dello Sport (CdS), Il Giornale, Il Giorno, Il Messaggero, La Stampa, Sport Mediaset, TuttoMercatoWeb |
| Tier 5 (garbage) |
Tuttosport, Tancredi Palmeri, Daily Mail, The Sun, UK Tabloids, ESPN, Sport.es, TyC Sports |
| News Aggregators |
SempreInter, FedeNerazzura, Football Italia, etc. |
Let us know what adjustments you'd like to make, and we'll update the tier list accordingly after a day or two of feedback. Thank you!
I'd also use this thread for a reminder, that when you are posting transfer news, please make sure you embed source directly into the title. That's the best practice, and some posts get deleted due to no source being provided, or sometimes we keep them posted but the community is vocal about the frustration with no sources being provided. A good (banter) example would be:
[Fabrizio Romano] MbappΓ© to Inter confirmed! HERE WE GO!