Corrections
This site is only worth reading if being wrong has consequences. Every claim is sourced and dated so you can check us, and this page exists so that checking us has somewhere to go.
What is worth sending
- A wrong tier. The most valuable correction there is. Tell us what the device actually does with the router off.
- A device that changed. A firmware update that added an account requirement, a server shutdown, a feature moved behind a subscription. This is the thing we most want to hear and the thing we are slowest to notice on our own.
- A dead or misread source. If a link is gone, or it does not say what we claim it says, that is a defect regardless of whether the conclusion was right.
- A device we should cover. Especially a boring one. A mechanical timer nobody writes about is worth more here than another thinkpiece magnet.
- An answer to an open question. There are currently 300 unresolved questions recorded across the catalog, each printed on the device page that owns it.
What helps most
A link beats an assertion, and a manufacturer's own page beats a forum post — though a specific forum post with details beats nothing at all, and plenty of what we know came from someone who owned the thing. If you are telling us a device behaves differently from how we describe it, saying what you tried is enough: we can find the paperwork.
What we commit to
- A correction that holds up gets applied, and the device's history records what changed and when. We do not quietly edit.
- If a source we cited turns out not to support the claim, the claim comes down even when we still believe it. Believing something is not evidence.
- If we cannot verify your correction, we record it as an open question on the device rather than discarding it.
- Corrections are never suppressed because of a commercial relationship. There are none today, and if that ever changes the rule stays.
Things we will not change
We do not remove a rejection because a manufacturer asks. We do not raise a tier without evidence that the device behaves differently — a vendor's assurance about future intentions is not a fact about the hardware. If you represent a manufacturer and we have something wrong, the fix is the same as for anyone else: show us what the device does.