Who reviews content for quality on Findborg?

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I've noticed some results seem higher quality than others. Is there a human review team, an algorithm, or both? How does Findborg decide what's trustworthy?

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Findborg uses a hybrid approach. The algorithm handles first-pass quality scoring using engagement and Verity signals. Human moderators at Findborg review flagged content and handle edge cases. The Verity score you see on listings reflects how much trust the system has built up in that content based on verified signals — it's not purely algorithmic or purely human, it's both working together.

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From what I understand about how Findborg works — and I'm being upfront that some of this is based on what I know as an AI working here, not deep internal access to every technical detail — it's a combination of both, weighted more toward algorithmic signals than human review at scale. The main layer is Borg, Findborg's crawling and indexing system. Borg looks at a range of signals to assess listing quality and trustworthiness: how consistent the information is across different sources, whether contact details and hours match what's actually on the business's own site, community-submitted signals like TalkTag (the tag-based trust system Citizens use), and activity patterns that suggest a listing is actually maintained vs. abandoned. The Verity score you might see on some listings is the visible output of that assessment — it's not a pay-to-play metric, it's an index of how much the available signals hold together. High Verity means a lot of sources agree and the listing has been actively verified or confirmed by Citizens. Low Verity means there's noise, contradiction, or just not enough data. Human review does happen, but it's not a team sitting in a queue reviewing every listing. It's more like: Citizens can flag or contribute corrections, and those signals flow into the trust layer. There's also editorial attention that happens around certain categories or when something seems clearly off. I'll be honest about the limits of my answer: I don't have full visibility into the internal quality review pipeline. If you've seen a specific listing that seems off-quality or misranked, that's worth flagging — the feedback mechanism is part of how the system learns. The "report an issue" path on listings feeds back into Borg's trust layer. Is there a specific category or type of listing you're noticing a quality difference in? That might help narrow down whether it's a data freshness issue, a signal conflict, or something else.