How a page here gets to its verdict
What an award means
An award on a shortlist says who a product fits: a shop size, a circuit, a material, a yard. It is a judgment made from the maker's documentation, counted owner reports and named independent tests. We run no bench, so an award is never a measurement, and no page carries a score in any notation.
Every pick names the buyer who should skip it. The ranking is ours; the commission plays no part in it, and the six rules we pick by say why.
How owner reports are counted
Most of the owner evidence is YouTube comments under videos that name the exact product. Each commenter is read one at a time, and only people who say or show they own the machine are counted. A page prints counts, never rates: a self-selected comment thread is not a sample, so "six of 58 report a clog" stays six of 58. Owners of a sibling model are never counted as owners of this one.
The three evidence labels
- We own it
Requires:
- the unit was bought and used by the person named in the byline
- at least one measurement or observation that appears in no source
- everything the Owner reports and docs label requires
Never claims:
- a measurement nobody took
- a duration of use longer than the actual one
- Owner reports and docs
Requires:
- the maker's own documentation, saved with a fingerprint so a later revision shows up
- the live Amazon listing for the exact model, checked against Amazon's catalog for this page
- at least one named independent test, saved alongside the documentation
- a counted set of owner reports, with every printed count read comment by comment
Never claims:
- owners of a different model on the same shelf as owners of this one
- a count added up across several searches and credited to one product
- Documentation only
Requires:
- the maker's own documentation, saved with a fingerprint so a later revision shows up
- the live Amazon listing for the exact model, checked against Amazon's catalog for this page
- one clause saying why the owner reports were too few to count
Never claims:
- owner consensus
- reliability over time
- anything about how it wears
Basis lines
Any table or spec block names where its figures come from: the maker's documentation, a named third party's instrumented test, or our own arithmetic over verified specs. Every number on a page traces to a cached copy of its source, and a figure with unknown conditions is printed as not stated.
Changes to the standard
- v1.1
States what an award slot means and what it does not, so a slot phrase is not read as a verdict from a bench that does not exist. Requires every pick on a hub to carry the buyer who should skip it, which makes the counter-case structural rather than a habit.
- v1.0
First published standard. Formalizes the three checked rungs that already shipped, adds the requirement that every figure trace to a cached source with a sha256, and adds spec basis: a normalized figure must state the conditions it was quoted under.