Editorial policy

Authorship

Editorial pieces on Rust Snowball are attributed to the brand rather than to individual byline-faking. The schema.org author on every article points to the Rust Snowball Organization, which is the legally responsible publisher. We intentionally don't invent person-level authorship for content the brand stands behind as a whole — Google's Quality Rater Guidelines accept organisation-level authorship for editorial content, and faking Person bylines without real bios is a worse EEAT signal than honest organisational attribution.

Fact-checking

• Every numerical claim about a Rust Snowball game (house edge, RTP, max payout, withdrawal time) is verified against the source code in apps/api/src/games and packages/provably-fair before publish.
• Every claim about a competitor on /vs/ or /best/ pages is sourced from the competitor's own public site or ToS at the snapshot date. We mark facts “unclear” when we can't verify them, rather than guess.
• House-edge math is verified end-to-end in CI: the disclosed edge for every game is asserted against a 1M-round Monte-Carlo simulation (verify-blackjack-rtp, verify-keno-rtp, verify-crash-rtp). Drift fails the build.

AI-use disclosure

We use large language models (Claude, GPT) for: initial draft outlines of long-form pieces; first-pass tone editing; metadata generation; per-skin editorial blurbs across our skin database. Every AI-assisted piece is reviewed and edited by a human at the brand before publish (authorship is brand-level — see above). Pure LLM output never ships unedited.

We do not use AI for: factual claims about specific odds, payouts, or game mechanics (those are sourced from code, not from the LLM); legal content (terms, privacy, responsible-gambling guidance); customer support escalation responses where a human is required.

Update cadence

These are commitments, not retroactive guarantees — the schedule applies going forward from the page's publication date.

• Game pages are reviewed any time the underlying engine code changes (rule disclosures, edge calculations).
• Versus pages are intended to be refreshed quarterly to catch competitor changes.
• Best-of pages follow the same quarterly intent.
• Country / legality pages are reviewed when local regulation moves and re-audited at least semi-annually.
• Help / KB updated when a flow changes (deposit method added, withdrawal time shifts, etc.).
• Skin DB auto-refreshes via the multi-source price oracle every 30 minutes; editorial blurbs reviewed monthly by sampling.

Conflict-of-interest policy

We are the operator. We own the platform. Every comparison page on Rust Snowball (the /vs/ and /best/ silos) is written by an operator with a financial interest in users choosing us. We mitigate this by:

• Ranking ourselves #1 only on criteria where we genuinely lead.
• Naming the competitor that wins on every criterion where we don't.
• Calling out competitor strengths explicitly on every /vs/ page.
• Linking to each competitor's site so readers can verify themselves.

This isn't a perfect counterweight. A genuinely independent third-party comparison would be more trustworthy. We try to be honest enough that you don't need one.

Corrections policy

See something wrong? Email [email protected] with the URL and the correction. Our target is to fix factual errors within 48 hours of acknowledgement and log the change in the page's git history. For material corrections (anything that changes a fact, number, or claim), we add an “Updated” note to the page with the date.

Responsible-gambling commitment

We do not produce content that encourages problem gambling behaviour. We do not glamourise chasing losses, doubling-down systems, or “sure thing” strategies that don't exist. Every editorial piece that touches strategy explicitly notes the long-run house edge math and links users to help or self-exclusion resources where relevant.