Academic language for "information leading to access to mates".

Which is what most gossip is at root. It has always been useful in that sense. It lets you know, at root, who to stay away from, and who might be good to take a closer look at.

Where gossip is a lay term for “distributed trust-building.”

I'll start using this phrase on my day to day.

I flashed on Thermians from Galaxy Quest with their "historical documents."