Evidence before confidence
A record can have strong source provenance and still need a current recheck. The interface says both.
Public trust record
How rankings work
The ranking system is designed to answer one question: which option is most useful for this person’s decision, based on current, auditable evidence?
The non-negotiable rules
Recency decays
Operational facts lose weight as they age. A dated phone check is not permanent verification.
Community is corroboration
Useful reports can confirm or challenge facts, but popularity alone does not establish truth.
Money is separate
Sponsors receive clearly labeled placement. Payment does not create verification, ownership, or organic rank.
Comparison methodologyRankings held during evidence rebuild
Launch formula
Organic scores will combine verified fact coverage, evidence recency, confirmed community usefulness, contribution credibility, and decision fit. Abuse risk, unresolved reports, and stale facts reduce confidence.
score = evidence coverage × recency × decision fit + confirmed community signal − abuse risk
Weights and worked examples will be published before non-zero scores go live. They will be versioned when changed.
Current evidence labels
- Source checked
- The displayed identity, description, and location passed the cited source contract. It does not claim that current hours, admission, access, or operations were independently verified.
- Official source on file · recheck pending
- The record came from a stronger official or public source, but current operating facts still need review.
- Contact details imported · recheck pending
- Structured contact data was imported from a known source and must be checked before verification.
- Details need confirmation
- A legacy published record is preserved for URL continuity without carrying forward unverifiable claims.
- Sponsored
- Paid visibility that is always labeled and excluded from organic ranking calculations.
Guarded daily growth
New province attractions come from the Tourism Authority of Thailand open-data catalog. A network-isolated publisher can add no more than three qualifying records per day. Each publication requires an English identity and unique description, valid Thailand coordinates, province mapping, duplicate checks, a source snapshot hash, and a signed manifest.
The automated path does not publish source phone numbers, websites, hours, prices, ratings, closures, rankings, or high-stakes medical, legal, or visa claims. Source changes to a live identity enter review instead of silently rewriting the page.