Trust & moderation

A ratings site is only as useful as it is honest. Here's exactly how we keep it that way.

The hard rule: money never touches scores

• Sponsored placements are always visually labeled and never affect a score or ranking.
• Organizer subscriptions buy analytics and the ability to respond to reviews — never edits, removals, or boosts.
• Moderation decisions are made identically for paying and non-paying conferences.

Who can rate

• Rating requires an account with a verified email address.
• One rating per person per conference — editing your rating updates the aggregate, it never duplicates.
• Submissions are rate-limited to blunt bulk and scripted manipulation.

Moderation & reporting

• Anyone signed in can report a review (spam, abuse, off-topic, fake). Reported reviews are de-prioritised pending review.
• Moderators can hide reviews that break the rules; hidden reviews drop out of scores immediately.
• Organizers respond publicly — their responses are labeled and can't alter the review.

Community vouching

New conferences are the hardest to judge — no reviews yet, nothing to go on. Sadly, that's exactly the gap fake events exploit. Vouching closes it: any verified member can vouch that a conference is a real, legitimately-run event, before the first reviews land.

• A vouch is not a review — it says "this event is real", not "this event is great".
• Only vouches from members with a track record count toward the public number: an existing review on the platform, an established account, or organizing another event. Brand-new accounts can vouch, but those vouches stay latent until the account earns standing — so a ring of fresh accounts moves nothing.
• One vouch per person per conference, and you can never vouch for an event you organize.
• Every vouch is attributed — names are public, so vouching stakes your own reputation on it.

Verified organizers

The "verified" badge means we manually approved that conference's claim — the person managing it demonstrably represents the event. Claims are reviewed by a human, every time.

See something wrong?

Report the review in place, or contact us for anything bigger — including GDPR data requests.