The process
Checked by people,
not scripts.
The mark on every listing is a person’s initials in our ledger. Here is exactly what happens before — and after — an event earns it.
The intake
Listings arrive from organisers, members and source feeds — Eventbrite, Luma, direct. Nothing is indexed on arrival; everything waits in the queue. Source credit travels with the listing forever.The check
A person opens the registration link, confirms the venue exists and is booked, matches the organiser to a real footprint, and reads the copy for spam. Roughly one in eight fails. Link · venue · organiser · copy — four checks, one checker.The mark
The badge is applied with the checker’s initials and the date — public on every card as “checked 26 Jul”, because someone did, on the 26th of July.Verified · checked 26 Jul · R.O.The re-check
Every listing is re-checked in the week before its date. Links rot; venues move. If anything changed, the listing is corrected or the mark comes off until it’s right again. A stale mark is worse than no mark.The retirement
Dead listings are retired. Cancelled events are different: they stay visible, struck through, with the cancellation date — a record, not an erasure.Sales leaders’ supper club Cancelled by organiser, 4 Nov
62,395
listings gathered
313
listings rejected
787
on the site today
Featuredis paid placement, never endorsement — it goes through the same five steps as everything else.