Sponsorship disclosure

There is no sponsored content on the site today, so this page defines standing terms honestly: what may be accepted later, how it will be labeled, and what sponsorship can never purchase.

Acceptable formats

If placement ever begins, it takes two shapes only: clearly labeled announcement cards confined to Desk Notes and designated sidebar surfaces. Promotional material inside appraisal bodies stays forbidden without exception; blending ads into verdict text is precisely the practice readers hire reviewers to prevent.

The firewall stated once

Sponsors buy visibility, not conclusions. Requests to alter a rating as a condition of payment get declined and documented internally; acceptance neither delays criticism nor schedules it, and unsatisfactory products receive the same public follow-through whether their makers ever spent a dollar here or not.

How to propose something

Pitches travel through the support address like all other mail and wait in queue behind corrections. Current editorial thinking guiding such decisions appears, free of charge and forever, inside the cleaner economics piece: aggregation can be worth paying for, fear is not, and receipts come before praise anywhere on this domain.