Editorial Independence
Media Yard LLC also sells services to companies that build agents. That is exactly why these rules exist, and why they are published.
The rules
- Scores come only from the published method. Every score is computed from a manifest by the rules on the methodology page. No one adjusts a score by hand.
- Nothing is for sale on the index. No one can pay for a score, a band, a ranking position, a listing, a removal, or the wording of a finding.
- Customers get no special treatment. A company that buys anything from Media Yard LLC is listed, scored and corrected exactly as any other.
- Listings change in three ways, all of them published. A listing changes when the crawl reads the server's own published manifest again, when its maintainer submits a verified manifest, or when a published correction is made. Each leaves the earlier record visible.
- Connections are disclosed. If Media Yard LLC has a customer, partner, investor or other material relationship with a listed server's owner, the listing says so at the top of its page.
- The index does not sell. Index, server and methodology pages carry no advertising, and nothing paid is shown as part of a listing, a score or a ranking. Media Yard LLC's own paid products appear in the site's navigation and on their own pages, and nowhere else.
- Paid products do not touch listings. Buying a stack report, a pre-publish check, a data licence or a Guard Team subscription changes no listing, score or ranking. The pre-publish check runs the published method on a manifest its maintainer pastes; it gives no early view of, and no influence over, how the index will read the published server.
- Ordering rules are published too. Where a page lists some servers and not others — the hundred on the homepage, the newly registered servers — the rule that picks them is stated on the methodology page and applies to every publisher alike.
If you see a breach
Write to support@leashkit.com. A confirmed breach of these rules is corrected and noted on the affected listing.