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Why do credentials lose value when evaluation formats retire?
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- Do medals from retired competition formats lose predictive power faster than others?
- Should platforms downweight or relabel credentials after retiring the format that issued them?
- Why do lifetime tiers discard information that recency-weighted medals preserve?
- Does this stranding problem appear when other evaluation platforms retire their formats?
- How much does medal age matter when predicting Kaggle performance?
- What happens when platforms withdraw special treatment from previously boosted creators?
- Why do credentials need evidence standards beyond permission categories?