As someone who's working on a Stratum implementation right now, I must say this is a VERY narrow view of reality.

I've been using the following resources to gain my knowledge of the protocol:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55842.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108533.0
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining
https://www.btcguild.com/new_protocol.php

Notice how 50% of those links were forum posts Cheesy

You're free to reference whatever you want, but that doesn't change what "documentation" means.

But, I'm guessing none of the discussion here counts as documentation either and can be entirely ignored Wink

Feel free to ignore the forum posts.
Unlike stratum, getblocktemplate is properly documented in Bitcoin standards and the wiki.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0022
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0023