What this document is
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for Cooking, home life and weekend trips for two, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
Standards
How Emi and Matt chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for Cooking, home life and weekend trips for two, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
We do not plan an editorial calendar. Articles appear when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly.
You can always see who wrote a page and what else they have put their name to. That traceability is deliberate, and it is why nothing here goes out unsigned.
Odalys Trent, Co-founder and kitchen writer. Odalys spent six years cooking for a catering company and now cooks for exactly two people, which turned out to be harder than cooking for eighty.
Bastian Kellerman, Home and budget editor. Bastian has logged every shared household expense in one spreadsheet since the first month he and Odalys moved in together.
Celestine Nwosu, Travel and games writer. Celestine plans the weekend trips, keeps the co-op game shelf in order and writes up both with the receipts attached.
Part of what keeps the lights on is commercial links. The verdict on a page is written first and does not bend to whether a link earns anything.
A request to pull a criticism gets a flat no and a place in our records. Sometimes that request is more revealing than the thing complained about, and it says so in a later piece.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.