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How The Stumble Picks What You See
How published listings enter discovery, how random selection and repeat avoidance work, and which checks still require editorial action.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreOur Entry Bar, In Full: And Everything We Turn Down
Every criterion an entry must meet, every category exclusion, and the evidence required to calculate a refusal rate.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreHow We Verify A Physical Business Without Publishing Anyone's Home Address
The hardest verification problem on this site, the procedure we use, and the one rule that never bends.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreWhat We Lost When The Blogroll Died
Human-curated outbound links were the web's discovery layer. What replaced them, and what that replacement cannot do.
Oct 17, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreEvery Correction We've Made, And What Each One Changed
How a correction is raised, recorded and published here, and why the log separates the errors we caught from the ones somebody else did.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreHow To Keep Your Entry Accurate After Something Changes
You moved, changed your hours, or stopped selling the thing we described. Here is how to tell us, and how fast we act.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreThe Refusal File: What The Bar Turns Down And Why
How the refusal file is written: the anonymisation rule, the patterns that fail the entry bar, and why nothing here ever names a business.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreShould You Be On A Directory At All? A Decision Guide
An honest decision tree with branches that end in "no" — including the branch that ends in "not us either".
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreWhat Happens When A Listed Business Disappears
Two failed checks, a human confirmation, then a tombstone rather than a deletion — and the route back if we got it wrong.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreWhat "Being Findable" Doesn't Mean
Where the honest work stops and the tactics start — and which of those tactics will get you refused here.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreHow The Stumble Picks What You See
How published listings enter discovery, how random selection and repeat avoidance work, and which checks still require editorial action.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
Read moreOur Entry Bar, In Full: And Everything We Turn Down
Every criterion an entry must meet, every category exclusion, and the evidence required to calculate a refusal rate.
Oct 19, 2026 • StumbleBees
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