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Editorial Policy

How Desk Gear Hub chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.

The promise behind the site

Before you trust a word elsewhere on deskgearhub.com, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.

Dating and updates

The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.

What we will not publish

  • Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
  • Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
  • Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

Named writers

Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.

Hollis Brandt, Ergonomics editor. Hollis spent nine years fitting office furniture for companies that bought expensive chairs and then set them up wrong. He carries a tape measure everywhere and trusts it more than reviews.

Priya Lindqvist, Desk setups writer. Priya rearranges her desk every quarter and documents each version with photos and a list of what annoyed her. She writes about small rooms, shared desks and cheap fixes.

Owen Takahara, Games and peripherals writer. Owen plays PC games most nights and has worn the legends off four keyboards. He writes about how gear and setup change long online game sessions.

How the site earns

Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

Where topics come from

Topics come from three places: reader mail, our own notes, and gaps we notice while reading what else is published. Nothing gets written because a keyword tool suggested it.

From idea to published

  1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
  2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
  3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
  4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

Putting things right

Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.