Transparency
No black boxes. Where a decision affects what you read, we say who made it and on what basis.
Transparency, always
Our process, standards and editorial decisions are open. Every published comment shows who verified it, where it came from, and how it's presented.
The rest of our editorial principles — and the list of things we will never build — live on the About page. How our (currently switched-off) crawler behaves, and how to opt out, is on the crawler page.