Transparency

Community contributions are the source

Reserve Scores are derived from community-submitted, moderator-verified evidence — not from staff opinion. Anyone can submit a withdrawal screenshot, a payout-time log, a fairness-verification reproduction, an item-value spot check, a license-register lookup, or a complaint thread cluster. We accept evidence regardless of whether you've signed up to the operator through us.

Each contribution is dated, attributed to a handle (or pseudonym), and tagged to a Reserve Score dimension. Verified contributions appear on the operator's public evidence trail. Rejected contributions are logged with the reason and remain visible — we don't delete dissent, we explain it.

How evidence is verified

Moderators check three things, in order: (1) does the evidence exist independently — primary URL, archived copy, blockchain TX hash, regulator-register URL, screenshot with timestamp metadata; (2) is it attributable — who submitted it, when, do they have a track record; (3) does it map cleanly to a Reserve Score sub-criterion. Verification is a yes/no decision; weighing comes from the rubric, not the moderator.

Moderators do not author scores. When verified evidence accumulates or shifts, the audit record is recalculated against the rubric and the change appears on the public changelog with the contributing evidence linked.

Scoring firewall (formerly: editorial firewall)

Ash Reserve earns affiliate commissions when readers sign up to operators we link to. Affiliate revenue does not change a Reserve Score and cannot — the score is a deterministic function of verified evidence and public weights. Both the rubric and the verified-evidence trail are queryable; if a future score is inconsistent with them, that's a bug, not editorial discretion.

Where an outbound operator link is affiliate-tagged, we mark it visibly on the page. Where we link to an operator without an affiliate agreement, we use a plain link. Reviews disclose this status individually.

Corrections policy

If a piece of verified evidence turns out to be fabricated or misattributed, write to corrections@ashreserve.com with counter-evidence. We acknowledge within five business days. Corrections retract the original evidence (kept visible with a strikethrough), recompute the affected score, and post to the changelog with the retraction reason.

Conflicts of interest

Ash Reserve is part of the same publisher group as casinorankr.com (a community-voted casino review site). We cross-link with casinorankr where their community data adds context to our evidence trail, and we disclose this relationship on every review where the link appears. Moderators may not contribute evidence on operators they verify for; that conflict is logged in the audit history.