Transparency

Scores and their inputs

Optional gear-log stars express enjoyment on a half-star scale from 0.5 to 5. They do not enter the community score. Detailed reviews use separate criterion scores, with reference products shown on the scales. Preference criteria, such as speed, do not count toward the quality score.

The community score combines quality criteria from approved reviews and pulls small samples toward the scale midpoint. The current minimum is 3 reviews per scored quality criterion. The calculation has no sponsorship, payment or retailer input. This describes the formula; commercial relationships and commitments about editorial independence still need confirmed disclosures below.

Moderation and reporting

Reviews from established members publish straight away; reviews from new accounts wait for moderator approval. Members can report posts, comments, takes and reviews under the content rules. Gear logs, public lists and opted-in creator details appear without prior review when eligible. Readers with active accounts can report another author's current public log, list or item notes, or creator details and channel link for spam, harassment, privacy concerns or another reason. Reporting does not automatically hide content.

Use Report log on a public profile or in the following feed, or Report list or item notes on a public list, or Report creator details or channel link on an opted-in public creator section. The report form opens for that specific contribution. Private lists, private or withdrawn creator drafts and your own contributions cannot be reported through this flow.

This report flow does not cover detailed reviews. Authors can edit pending reviews or reviews returned for changes and resubmit them. Resubmission and staff release controls do not provide an appeal process. A monitored contact route, reconsideration procedure and response expectations still need confirmation.

Moderators and admins can dismiss a report, hide the whole contribution or release a hold. Editing does not release a hold. Owners retain their current data; a release restores visibility only when normal account, product and list-privacy rules allow it. Reports and staff decisions are not public, and the staff queue does not retrieve private history or deleted-note snapshots.

Dismissing a report does not release an existing hold. Log and list holds attach to that contribution's ID; a replacement with a new ID is not automatically linked to the earlier hold.

Creator holds follow the account owner and survive edits, withdrawal and re-publication. Only staff can release them; release does not opt the owner back in. Private or withdrawn creator drafts are excluded from report details and the staff queue.

Per-account contribution limits

Removing a log, list or reported source does not reset these limits. Log and list removal remains available when save limits are reached. Each account can keep up to 20 lists, with up to 50 products each, and submit one report per target, including creator profiles and after a report is resolved. The 10-report limit is shared across all target types. Creator changes and re-publication count; withdrawal remains available at the limit and does not consume a save. Deleting creator details does not reset their save quota.

Following an already-followed account again does not consume quota. Unfollowing stays available at the limit; it does not reset usage, and following that account again counts as a new follow. Removing a target account does not reset the follower's quota either.

These controls apply per account. They do not prevent abuse using multiple accounts or guarantee that repeated removal and re-creation will be detected as the same contribution.

Staff have a read-only tool that compares a bounded sample of current public log notes, list main notes and creator descriptions across distinct accounts. It excludes item notes, channel links and private history, stores no matching results and takes no automatic action. Matching text can be a quotation or common wording; it does not prove shared identity, spam or coordinated accounts. Operational rules for investigating and responding to suspected multi-account abuse still need confirmation.

Public visibility and private history

Saving logs and lists, submitting reports and viewing your private history require an active signed-in account. Public contributions from banned authors are hidden. Public logs require published products; public lists hide unpublished products and their item notes. Private lists are available only to their owner. Moderation holds also hide affected public contributions.

Creator details and channel links are self-declared and require the active owner's public opt-in. Identity, channel ownership, gear ownership, professional status and sponsorship are not verified. Withdrawal hides the creator section while retaining its private draft; the ordinary public setup can remain visible.

Hiding an author's public review text does not currently remove their approved criterion values from score aggregates. Aggregate eligibility rules, including account-age and ownership weighting, still need a confirmed policy.

Log and setup changes retain before-and-after snapshots in your private gear history, including previous notes and removed entries. Removing current gear is not a purge of that history. The following feed shows current public logs, not those snapshots. There is no user-facing history purge or published retention schedule yet.

Reports retain the details supplied by the reporter and the target reference. Staff decisions retain a reason, staff account reference and timestamp. Removing the contribution does not erase those records. The report queue does not retrieve private history, but details typed into a report can contain personal information. Avoid including sensitive information that is not needed to explain it. Retention and deletion procedures for these records remain undecided.

Store links and creator codes

Product pages can list where an item is sold, with the store's price at the time of the last import. Links to stores on Shopify go through Continium's own store code, CON (the store's /discount/con address, which then opens the product), so Continium may earn a commission or the store may apply a discount. Stores are still ordered by price, never by commission, and these links are tagged as sponsored for search engines.

Creators can add their own store discount codes or referral links. They are shown on the creator's profile and with their reviews only while their creator section is public, always labelled as creator codes. Using one may support that creator. When you arrive at a product from a creator's review, its store links apply that creator's code and say so.

Continium takes no commission from creators' codes or referral links. They do not affect scores, rankings, search or the order of stores. Links that carry a creator's code or referral are labelled as such and tagged as sponsored for search engines. Codes are self-declared; the stores, not Continium, decide whether a code is valid.