Would a reader expect more than the game gives?
Promises about wins, features and ceilings are compared with the rules screen so that nothing sounds bigger than it is.
Anselm Podmore spent nine years handling player disputes in the online gaming industry. He now reads every page as an unhappy player would and returns a written objection for each sentence that could be quoted back.
Six complaint themes are tested on every page, and each one needs a written answer before publication.
Promises about wins, features and ceilings are compared with the rules screen so that nothing sounds bigger than it is.
Anything learned from free play is labelled as demo behaviour, with the real-money differences stated beside it.
Stake caps, spin times and disabled features sit in the paragraph they affect, not in a footer.
RTP, hit frequency and maximum win are worded as long-run or capped facts, never as what a session will deliver.
Where the provider is silent, for example on how often a bonus arrives, the page says so instead of guessing.
Warnings and help details carry the same weight as the feature descriptions they follow.
Every complaint about a game begins with a sentence someone remembers: it said the bonus was easy to reach, the demo paid better, the maximum was there for the taking. Anselm spent nine years on the receiving end of those messages, reconstructing what a player had been shown and what they had understood from it.
That work left him with a fixed way of reading. He does not ask whether a sentence is true. He asks whether a hurried reader could take it to mean something larger. A cap mentioned only in a footer, a feature described without its limit, a demo win presented without its caveat: each is a complaint waiting for a date.
His role on this site is narrow by design. He does not judge whether a slot is enjoyable, and he leaves the arithmetic to the editor. He decides whether the page could be quoted against itself, and it goes live only when he has nothing left to object to.
If a sentence can be quoted against the page, it is rewritten before the page goes live.
a first pass with one question, what would a disappointed player quote back at us
each promise is filed under one of the six themes and the evidence for it is noted
every open point is written down and returned to the editor with the sentence it concerns
the page goes live only when the list is empty, and the date of clearance is recorded
Anselm reads what Winifred Cardew writes with the game's rules screen open beside the draft and returns a written objection for every sentence a reader could quote back.