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No, they don't. They are called "List of Legit and Scam Providers" (but also include stuff like detection or an "untrusted" section), not "Information and Reviews of Providers", so it's about reputation and not only providing information.
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You're taking the title "List of Legit and Scam Providers" too literally. Beyond the "List of Legit and Scam Providers" in the original post, there's conversation(s) among customers exchanging commentary and seeking the best options for their needs. That's the point of these threads.
You can easily browse through any 1 of the 11 threads to see that many of the posts are people giving commentary on the various cheats listed.
Just to reinforce my point further, here are posts from only the last two pages of the Call of Duty list -
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Not relevant here, those lists change nothing about that.
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It is relevant per your claim.
If developers are using TBM as a bulletin board, it restricts the conversation the consumer can have as the developer is absent. Additionally, sales threads often disallow the same type of discussion that takes place within the list threads.
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True, but the problem remains with those lists. Nothing is stopping those same developers from buying reviews for the list thread, so it's not solving any problems. It's even worse, as now you can also pay for negative reviews for competitor products to get them added to the "Detected/Untrusted" section.
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What's stopping them is the countless participants in the thread that will notice the fake reviews and call them out, which is against the rules within the sales thread but allowed in the list threads.
Also, paying someone to report a product as detected or untrusted would be pointless as they're tested by the list author.
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Wdym "Not quite"? In the next sentence you literally confirmed yourself that the majority is maintained by someone selling products themself (in the same category), just like I said. And just like I said, it's a conflict of interests.
Just to make it clear, conflict of interest means that your personal interests, like financial gain, could influence your judgment. Which is very much the case here.
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In your original post, you used the example "imagine BMW maintaining a list of top cars worldwide..."
Many car dealerships sell other brands, they don't accept trade-ins to hide them in the back and salvage them. They clean the trade-in up and resell it.
Additionally, following your own logic, anyone overseeing the list, be it a seller or not, faces a potential conflict of interest since everyone can be influenced by a financial gain.
Nonetheless, as I pointed out earlier, any deliberate mislabeling of a provider without evidence will be addressed by the staff following a report.
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There are also much more lists than that, rust alone has 3. Im just going to take your word that Xenos is doing a good job maintaining them, but he's also not the one that caught my eye. Few others did.
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I see two lists, and one hasn't been maintained at all, thus why the one by Relentless exists. To be fair, the old one should be closed - I'm going to report it after responding to you.
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My example was that people will badmouth competitors products to advertise themselves. Sometimes they're even acting as if they are not affiliated with a certain product while talking godly about it. Don't think that's the purpose of those, In general I don't think that's a good thing.
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That doesn't work in these these threads as you have a plethora of users that will initiate debate if they notice it happening.
A good example of this is a scammer that used to "sell" fake products here, Choron.
He ran a highly successful sales thread filled with fake trades and reviews. Customers who purchased from him received nothing, as there was no actual product. When these customers would call him out as a scammer on his thread, providing evidence, he'd report their comments, leading to their removal, perpetuating the scam.
However, things changed when people began discussing him in the list threads. Xenos labeled him as a scammer on his list after our own verification, allowing the community to conduct our own investigation. Then we presented all of the findings to the staff, leading to his trading privileges being revoked. Without the list threads, this outcome would've never have never happened.
