Equifax refused to restore his credit score or explain why it dropped to zero, until Go Public started asking questions.
Only then did the company point to its little-known policy: If a credit file sits inactive, the consumer may be labelled “unscoreable” and their score reset to zero. Tregear says the last time he checked, before it disappeared, his score was around a more respectable 700.
Go Public has since found a major flaw in consumer protection rules — that there are no laws or oversight on how credit scores are calculated, leaving credit bureaus to do what they want.
Consumer advocate Geoff White says that gives credit bureaus too much power, with no transparency.


The “crosspost” label is more of a flag that there is another post with the same URL somewhere. If I posted the same article in a community multiple times, it would have multiple “crosspost” labels for that community. I agree that this could be done in a better way
I assume there was a bug or loading issue where the user posted this post twice. Maybe their app thought it didn’t go through the first time and tried posting it again.
Since there is discussion on both posts, I might leave them both?
I think I might have an explanation. Lemmy seems to have an issue with CBC articles for some reason. When I post them, it doesn’t show that it’s “posted” but “hangs” in the posting page. So I clicked it to submit again. It doesn’t happen with any other site. Just CBC.
Removed by mod
That’s a good point, it looks like one of the other admins has locked the extra post and redirected users to the post with more votes. In the future I’ll do something similar based on which one was posted first