# StakeFree editorial team

**Role:** code directory maintainers.

The team maintains three things: the code list, the status labels, and the written guides. Everything published on this site passes through a human before it appears.

## What the work looks like

**Collecting.** Codes arrive from campaigns, creator announcements, reader submissions and public listings. Listings are treated as leads, never as evidence.

**Checking.** A check means signing in with an account that has no active bonus, pasting the string unedited, and recording the response with a date. One account can redeem one code, so confirming a list of this size is slow by design.

**Writing.** Guides are written to answer the question the page is actually about, then edited for accuracy. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and reviewed line by line; the status labels are never automated.

**Correcting.** Reader reports that contradict a label trigger a re-check. Re-checks move codes in both directions, and every change is dated on the [changelog](/updates/).

## Why the labels stay conservative

A directory can look authoritative by printing green ticks with no date behind them. We print the label and the date, because the date is the part a reader can check, and it is the part that changes when a campaign ends.

The rules are public in the [editorial policy](/editorial-policy/). If a label looks wrong, the [contact page](/contact/) explains what to send.