Editorial Standards
LinkLoot publishes web finds, guides, tool analysis, and news. Learn how to read sources, review notes, and disclosures, and how to report factual errors.
Editorial scope
News posts cover events, releases, product changes, and other current developments. Guides and collections help with research and specific tasks. Read a post's date and sources to understand its freshness and scope.
Sources and traceability
When an article relies on external information, we link to primary sources, official announcements, documentation, studies, or traceable reporting where possible. Source notes may appear directly in the article or in the source section.
Automated assessments, editorial review, and practical testing
An automated assessment analyzes available sources and evidence. It is not a user rating and, by itself, does not establish safety or a successful practical test. Editorial approval concerns publication and is a separate step. Practical testing is documented only when specific test steps or results are available. When that documentation is missing, whether a test was performed remains unknown. Scope, dates, and limitations are meaningful only where they are supported for the individual entry. LinkLoot's own tools are first-party offerings; internal or automated assessments of them are not independent reviews.
Authors, dates, and updates
Articles show a byline as well as publication and modification dates. Relevant updates should improve the content without presenting the original publication date as a new event.
Labeling
Opinions, recommendations, sponsored content, affiliate relationships, or AI-assisted elements are labeled in their immediate context when they are relevant to readers. AI-generated images or automatically assisted posts are not presented as purely manually created. Advertising or sponsorship must not obscure editorial claims.
Community content and AI disclosures
Anyone publishing their own loot must truthfully disclose material AI generation or AI editing and any realistic synthetic or manipulated media, and must hold the necessary rights or consents. We do not automatically treat standard corrections such as spelling, grammar, or formatting clean-up without a change in substantive meaning as label-worthy AI origin. LinkLoot may request additional evidence, add labels, or restrict publication where disclosures are missing or implausible.
Corrections
When factual errors are found, we correct them as quickly as possible. Reports can be submitted through the contact page. Larger corrections or updates are made traceable in the article context.