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Editorial policy
Real testing, locked scores, dated prices, public data for grades, corrections in the open.
- Real people only. Every publishable page has a named author with a public profile. No personas, no "staff" byline.
- Scored on a public rubric. A product gets a score only after its sub-scores are recorded from primary sources and independent reviews, and we say on the page when we have not used it ourselves. Scores are computed from sub-scores; nobody types a score.
- At most five winners per category. Everything else we scored is reviewed honestly with "where it lost" and "still right for".
- Dated everything. Prices carry a checked-on date and a next-check date. Every page has a changelog. Amazon prices carry an "as of" timestamp and refresh within 24 hours.
- No fake reviews. The community board carries reader questions and editor answers — never user reviews, testimonials or fake user posts. Staff-seeded questions are labeled.
- Corrections. Errors are fixed in the page's changelog with what was wrong. Email [email protected].
- Regulated topics. Insurance and loan pages are compared, not sold; they carry a "not licensed advice" notice and never use lead forms that collect sensitive data on our domain.