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The method and criteria are published before the records on purpose — a bar written after the fact tends to describe whatever was already listed. See \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/business-register\",}, \"the register\"), \".\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How does something get in?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"It clears six criteria, a named person examines it, and a dated check confirms it was trading. All of it is at \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/entry-bar\",}, \"the entry bar\"), \".\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How big will it get?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Small, and slowly. 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Elsewhere the site's position is to have none at all, and any that appeared would carry a visible disclosure immediately beside it.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How is the site funded then?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"At present it earns nothing. If that changes, \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/no-money\",}, \"who pays for this\"), \" changes first.\")\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('section', null\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"About accuracy\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How current is any of this?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"As current as the date shown next to it, and no more. Past the staleness threshold an entry is flagged rather than hidden. \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/method\",}, \"The method\"), \" explains what a date does and does not mean.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"What if something has closed?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Tell us at \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/corrections\",}, \"corrections\"), \". It starts a check rather than an immediate change — two failures at least fourteen days apart plus a human confirmation before anything is marked \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/gone\",}, \"gone\"), \".\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Do you ever get it wrong?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Yes, and the log at \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/corrections\",}, \"corrections\"), \" records what and how it was caught, including when somebody else caught it first.\")\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('section', null\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"For operators\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How do I get listed?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/submission-guide\",}, \"Submit a business\"), \". It is free, slow, offers no priority at any price, and is expected to be refused more often than not.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"How do I get removed?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/delist\",}, \"Request removal\"), \". Free, fast, no reason required, and nobody will try to talk you out of it.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Is being listed worth anything?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Probably very little in traffic terms, and we would rather say so. \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/blog/youre-listed-what-changes\",}, \"You're listed, here's what changes and what doesn't\"), \" is deliberately deflationary about it.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Will you review or rate my business?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Never. We publish no assessment of any business, favourable or otherwise. See \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/the-line\",}, \"the Line\"), \".\")\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('section', null\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"About the rest of the site\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Why so much writing about other directories?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Because a register asking to be trusted should first explain how the category it belongs to actually earns money. \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/directories\",}, \"How directories actually work\"), \" is that explanation.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Do you name bad listing sites?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"No. We describe patterns and mechanisms, never a named operator as deceptive. It is a legal exposure we will not take on and, more importantly, patterns are more useful to a reader than a blocklist.\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h3', null, \"Was something else at this web address before?\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Yes, an unrelated business, and we have no connection to it. \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/about-this-domain\",}, \"About this domain\"), \" states that plainly.\")\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('section', null\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Where to go next\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('p', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-cta\", href: \"/start\",}, \"Start here\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-cta sec\" , href: \"/entry-bar\",}, \"Read the entry bar\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-cta sec\" , href: \"/no-money\",}, \"See who pays for this\")\n        )\n      )\n      , _react2.default.createElement('section', { className: \"sb-faq\",}\n        , _react2.default.createElement('h2', null, \"Anything else\")\n        , _react2.default.createElement('details', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('summary', null, \"Can I write for you?\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Not currently. When operator interviews open, the terms are published in advance at \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/stories\",}, \"in their own words\"), \" so anyone asked can read them before deciding.\")\n        )\n        , _react2.default.createElement('details', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('summary', null, \"Do you have a newsletter?\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"No. The site does not operate an email subscription service; its methods and updates are published directly on the relevant pages.\")\n        )\n        , _react2.default.createElement('details', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('summary', null, \"Can I link to you?\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"Yes, and no permission is needed. We do not run a link exchange, accept guest posts, or trade links, and an offer to do any of those will be declined.\")\n        )\n        , _react2.default.createElement('details', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('summary', null, \"Do you use tracking or advertising?\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"No third-party advertising and no ad pixels. Whatever analytics exist are described in \", _react2.default.createElement('a', { className: \"sb-a\", href: \"/cookies\",}, \"the cookie policy\"), \", and nothing counted feeds back into the discovery rotation.\")\n        )\n        , _react2.default.createElement('details', null\n          , _react2.default.createElement('summary', null, \"Is the site's name final?\")\n          , _react2.default.createElement('p', null, \"No. The wordmark is provisional and under review. 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