Every score on this site is built from real owner comments — collected from Reddit threads, niche enthusiast forums, and YouTube comment sections. No editorial opinions, no review units sent by manufacturers, no star ratings copied from a retailer. This page explains exactly what counts, what gets thrown out, and why you can verify every quote yourself.
A comment only counts toward a score when a real person expresses a clear first-hand judgment about the product — “still going strong after two years,” “died in a month, don't bother,” “it's fine, does the job.” Each one is classified as recommend, neutral, or don't recommend, and the headline percentage is simply the share of owners who recommend it. Comments must be about this product (or its product line) — verdicts about a different model are rejected.
Every scored comment carries a verbatim quote, preserved byte-for-byte, linked back to the original comment. If a quote can't be matched exactly to its source text, it is dropped automatically. You can click through and check any quote on the site.
Affiliate-monetized blogs. Across our corpus, blogs that earn a commission on the sale rate products roughly 40 points more positively than actual owners. Their opinions are shown for transparency but never counted in any score.
Professional reviewers.YouTube reviewers often receive free or sponsored units. Their takes may be shown for perspective, but they don't score.
Skewed comment sections.YouTube owner-comments only count when their overall sentiment lines up with what owners say on Reddit and forums. When a channel's comment section runs far more positive or negative than the owner consensus, we leave it out.
Everything that isn't a verdict.Shipping and seller complaints, setup questions, troubleshooting with no outcome, bare “I own one” statements — none of it counts. Useful context appears in the “Common problems & things to know” section instead, clearly separated from the score.
Pile-ons.When a product has a dedicated problem megathread, those verdicts are capped so a single bad thread can't drown out the broader ownership experience — the issue still shows up, proportionately.
Retailer star ratings (Amazon, Walmart, and others) appear on product pages for cross-reference, because you'd look them up anyway. They never influence our score — the whole point is having a number that isn'tthe retailer's.
We publish negative scores — plenty of popular products on this site sit under 50% recommend. We show the owner count next to every percentage so you can judge the sample yourself, and we break the score down by community so you can see where it comes from. A product with too few real verdicts doesn't get a score at all; we'd rather show nothing than fake confidence.
We earn a commission if you buy through our Amazon links. That commission is identical whichever product you choose, and the people whose verdicts make up our scores have no idea we exist — which is precisely what makes their opinions worth aggregating.