POLICY · EDITORIAL STANDARDS
Editorial standards
This site is one person's research desk, run in public. These are the rules it operates under.
Who writes this site
One named reviewer: Noah Rafkin. I own and operate Bonus Bandit. There are no ghost-written reviews and no anonymous staff bylines. If a verdict is wrong, you know exactly who to blame.
Sourcing
Legal statuses cite primary sources: statutes, bills, and regulator orders. Every state page shows its review date, so you can see how fresh the claim is before you rely on it.
Verification cadence
Current scores are a dated June 2026 baseline migrated from our prior research; each operator page stamp says BASELINE until that operator clears an individual re-verification, at which point it switches to VERIFIED with the new date. Change-detection watchers run continuously and feed the review queue.
Corrections
When I get something wrong, the fix goes on the page and the change is logged in the public changelog like any other. Spot an error? Email noah.rafkin@bonusbandit.win with what you found.
Independence
No operator can pay for coverage, placement, a score, or removal of a review. The site earns affiliate commissions on some links; those links are labeled, gated by state legality, and explained in the affiliate disclosure. The scoring formula has no input for money. See the methodology.
What this site doesn't do
No guest posts. No sponsored reviews. No score negotiation. Operators who email asking what it would take to move a number get this page in reply.