Editorial policy

How a part earns a recommendation

Ranking starts from proven quality per dollar rather than from price alone: a part's rating, weighted by how many people rated it, divided by the square root of its price. That formula is why a well-reviewed mid-priced item usually outranks both the cheapest option and the flagship, and it is applied identically across every category so the ordering is comparable.

On IRL paths a camera is scored differently, because a field camera and a desk webcam are not the same product. Low-light ability, motion handling, power draw, and runtime on a standard battery bank replace the webcam spec columns entirely. A webcam that wins at a desk can rank last on a street, and it should.

Nothing is ranked by commission rate. Where a category has a paying affiliate option and a free or cheaper one that is genuinely better, both are listed and the better one is the pick.

What earns a part its own page

Part pages ship only when there is real data behind them: an image plus either a rating or at least three tracked price points. Everything else stays unpublished rather than becoming a thin spec dump with a headline. Parts cross the threshold automatically on the next data refresh, which is why the number of published part pages grows without anyone writing them.

What counts as a source for a streamer setup

Streamer gear pages are ranked by how well the gear is evidenced, and the page says which level it is at. First-party evidence (the streamer's own setup tour, a published tech page, an interview, a clear on-stream shot) is the top tier and is cited. Reported means several independent accounts agree but no first-party confirmation exists. Our pick means we selected the item that best matches what is visible, and we say so.

Gear aggregator sites are not treated as sources. Several of them contradict each other, none cite anything, and an earlier version of this site had to downgrade a batch of pages after checking. If a page cites something, the citation is a real link you can open.

A page is never published claiming certainty it does not have. When better evidence appears, the page is upgraded and the label changes with it.

Prices, ratings, and stock

Prices are curated estimates plus tracked history, not a live feed, and they can differ from the listing you land on. The retailer page is always authoritative and the buy link goes straight to it. Deal badges compare today against the tracked average for that item, so they mean "cheap for this product" rather than "cheap".

Ratings and review counts shown on part pages come from the retailer listing and are labelled as such. They are not our own testing scores and are never presented as if they were.

Corrections

Errors get fixed rather than quietly deleted. If a claim was wrong in a way that changed a buying decision, the page says what changed. Gear that a streamer has since replaced, a platform spec that moved, a price that has drifted far from reality: all of it is worth an email, and corrections are the most useful mail this site gets.

What we will not publish

Content generated to fill a keyword with nothing behind it. Specifications copied from a manufacturer page and presented as a review. A quality verdict stated as a promise when mobile uplink cannot promise anything. A streamer's gear presented as confirmed when the trail ends at an uncited aggregator. Compatibility advice we have not reasoned through, since the whole point of the compatibility engine is catching the purchase that will not work.