EDITORIAL STANDARDS

These rules are
not aspirational.

Every published page must conform. No exceptions. No workarounds. If a claim can't be sourced, it doesn't ship.

CLASSIFICATION

Every claim falls into exactly one category.

The reader must always know which.

FACT

A statement verifiable against a primary source. Required: direct link to source. Visual marker: plain text, no qualifier needed.

ALLEGATION

A claim made under oath or in a court filing but not yet adjudicated. Required: citation to filing. Visual marker: "alleged in complaint filed [date]."

OPINION

Editorial commentary, analysis, or inference. Required: framed explicitly ("in our view," "we conclude"). Tied to supporting facts.

THE SOURCING RULE

Every factual claim links to a primary source. No exceptions.

If a claim cannot be sourced, it does not get published.

1Court filings on NYSCEF
2NYC Open Data (ACRIS, DOB, HPD, DOF, 311)
3NY State agency records (AG, DOS)
4Published government reports
5Mainstream journalism (fair-use excerpts)
6Academic publications (peer-reviewed)

Not acceptable: anonymous blogs, Reddit, unverified social media, AI summaries, aggregation sites.

NAMING RULES

Who we name. Who we don't.

Always Nameable

Managing agent companies, sponsor LLCs, law firms, engineering firms, contractors, public officials in official capacity, boards as a body.

Conditionally Nameable

Individual board members — only if named in a court filing or made conduct public. Agent employees — only if named in a filing or signed the document.

Never Nameable

Unit owners as individuals (except operator on own case), tenants, children, witnesses from confidential settings.

FAIRNESS PROTOCOL

Before any critical page goes live.

1. Right of reply. Entity emailed 72 hours in advance with specific claims.
2. Inclusion. Any response received is published verbatim alongside criticism.
3. No-response disclosure. If no response, the page states so with the date.
4. Exception. Not required when summarizing claims already in public court records.

TONE

The anger is earned.

The site is angry. The anger is aimed at systems and entities, not individuals.

PERMITTED

"AKAM Associates manages 542 buildings without any state license."

NOT PERMITTED

"AKAM employee [Name] is a liar."

Rule of thumb: if a defamation lawyer would call it "actionable," we rewrite. If they'd call it "robust criticism of a matter of public concern," it ships.

LEGAL POSTURE

Anti-SLAPP defensible.

Every published page must be defensible as speech on a matter of public concern under NY Civil Rights Law §§70-a and 76-a.

Subject is a residential governance system affecting thousands
Facts drawn from public records or fair-use journalism
Opinions framed as opinions
Criticism directed at entities and patterns
Right-of-reply offered where original criticism is involved

INDEPENDENCE

No advertising. No payments. No conflicts.

No advertising from managing agents, sponsors, brokers, condo/co-op law firms, or LL11 engineering firms. No payments from any subject of a current page.

Operator's status as plaintiff in Perez v. Langston Condominium et al. is disclosed on every Langston-related page.

Version: 1.0 — Effective 2026-04-11 — Reviewed annually