How a page gets published here
Who is responsible for what WorldbyFlow publishes, what a person checks before anything goes up, what the site will not do, and how to get something corrected.
Brad Luffy
WorldbyFlow is edited by Brad Luffy, its founder. Every page published under News, the Watercooler, the Library, Research and Reports was read by him before it went up, and he is the person to write to about any of it, at contact@worldbyflow.com.
He can also be found on LinkedIn.
Research with its sources showing
Every page starts as a scan: one run of one kind of research on one subject. The research is produced with AI assistance, working from the sources the scan retrieves during the run. What makes it research rather than a summary is what the page has to show: every claim carries a grade for how it is known, from verified to not established; every source it cites is one the scan actually read; and where the record disagrees with itself, the page says who says what.
The grades are assigned by the same rules on every page, and those rules are published: the methodology renders them from the code that enforces them, and the glossary gives every grade its own page.
A person reads every page
Nothing on the published surfaces goes up automatically. What the editor does on each one:
News
Each story is one Event Scan, run on that day's reporting in the story's own section. The editor picks the stories, reads every scan, and publishes each one by hand. A story nobody has read never appears.
The Watercooler
One sweep of each field's public discussion a morning. The editor reads it and cuts any conversation that does not belong before a section is published. Nothing is quoted, no private person is named, and every conversation carries a stamp for how much of it is verified. A conversation is shown as continuing from an earlier day only when the editor has confirmed the link.
The Library
One question, one scan. Each answer is read before it is published, and the settled and the contested parts of a question are kept apart on the page.
Research and Reports
Research pages and long-form reports are published one at a time after they are read. A report's landing copy is drafted and then edited by hand; none of it is published automatically.
Research a reader runs for themselves belongs to them. A page they choose to share is theirs, not an edited publication, and it stays out of search unless they list it.
Six lines it does not cross
- Give investment, medical or legal advice, or tell a reader what to buy, take or sign.
- Take a partisan position. A policy page maps who holds which view and why; it does not pick one.
- Quote a private person, or name anyone for what they posted.
- Print a link the research did not actually retrieve. A source is linked only when the scan read it.
- Present a rumour as settled. A claim nobody has sourced is stamped for what it is, however widely it is repeated.
- Hide what could not be established. A gap is printed as a gap, and a contested claim shows who says what.
How to get a page corrected
Write to contact@worldbyflow.com with the page's link and what is wrong: a figure, a grade that overstates what the record shows, a conversation stamped wrong, a person who should not be named. Every request is read by the editor.
A page that is wrong is corrected or taken down. A corrected page keeps its date and says what changed, so a reader who saw the earlier version can tell.