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How we check and update guides
Platform rules, prices and limits for streamers change often, and old answers keep circulating. This is how we try to stay accurate, and how you can check us.
1. Primary sources, dated
Every policy, price and limit in a guide links to the page it comes from: YouTube Help, Kick's own terms, a music library's license text, a service's pricing page. Next to it we write the date we read it ("checked on"). We prefer the platform's own documentation over news coverage, and news coverage over forum posts.
2. What we do not claim
We do not run test streams, and we do not publish numbers we have not seen in a source. When a platform documents nothing on a question, the guide says "no published limit" or "not documented" instead of filling the gap with a guess or a figure from a forum.
Where our own reading joins two rules together, for example what an unarchived stream means for watch hours, we label it as our reading, not as the platform's statement.
3. What already ranks
Before writing, we read the pages that currently rank for the question and note what they get wrong or leave out. A guide is only worth publishing if it answers the question more directly, with more current facts, or with something the others lack: a dated table, a checklist, a diagram.
4. Review before publishing
Every guide goes through a written checklist before it is published: sources and dates, our own tables or images, no filler, accessible images, correct titles and links, and a read-through on desktop and phone. The checklists are kept with our source files.
5. Updates
Guides about policies and prices are re-checked at least every 90 days. When something changes, we update the page and its "checked on" date. If you spot something out of date, please tell us.
6. Tools we recommend
Where a guide compares tools, we recommend the ones we would use ourselves and state their limits, for example which platforms a service does not support. Links to those tools may carry tracking tags. Nobody pays for placement.