Editorial policy

Any figure we print — a dimension, a weight, a capacity, a speed, a decibel value — carries a visible label saying where it came from and a link to that page, plus the date we read it. If you cannot see where a number came from, it should not be on this site.

“Not published” is a valid answer here, and a required one. When a manufacturer does not publish a figure, the cell says so in words. It does not get filled with an estimate, a competitor’s number, a range, or a value with “(est.)” after it.

This costs us. A table full of “not published” is less satisfying than a table full of numbers. It is also the truth about the state of this category, and hiding it would make us the thing we built the site to be an alternative to.

Amazon’s commission is a flat category rate across every machine we list, so placement cannot be bought and is not for sale. No manufacturer has paid for a placement, sent us a unit, or seen a draft. Full funding disclosure.

Every ranked page on this site includes one machine we tell you not to buy, and the specific reason. A page that recommends everything recommends nothing, and a list where every option is a winner is a catalog, not a review.

Specifically and permanently off the table:

• Star ratings or review counts we did not produce
• Testimonials or customer quotes — we have no customers
• Any claim of testing, ownership, unboxing or hands-on use
• Any credential for our author, who holds none
• Any photograph presented as ours of a product in use
• A price written into a sentence, where it will go stale
• Rating markup in the page’s structured data

That last one is worth spelling out: we deliberately do not emit review or rating schema to search engines. We have not used these machines, so a machine-readable star rating from us would be a claim we cannot support — regardless of how convenient the search result would look.

If we get something wrong, we fix the page and the “last updated” date changes with it. Material corrections — a wrong specification, a pick that should not have been a pick — are noted on the page rather than quietly edited away.

We also do the reverse: we do not bump a date without a real change. Fake freshness is a trust signal spent for nothing.

Every published figure is re-checked against the manufacturer’s current page each quarter, because manufacturers revise specs silently and a stale sourced number is worse than no number — it looks verified.

Every number on this site links to its source specifically so you can check it. If a figure does not match what the manufacturer publishes today, that is worth an email: info@padandpace.com, or the contact form. We will check it and update the page.