Editorial policy

MindLounge Journal publishes short, carefully checked articles on thinking, games and everyday life. This page explains how they are made, so you can decide how much to trust them.

Four desks

Articles belong to one of four desks: Games & Strategy, Society & Humanity, Science, Technology & Future, Mind & Everyday Life. Each desk has a clear subject area and its own page listing its articles.

How an article is made

Topics are chosen by the site's editor. A first draft is prepared with the help of an AI writing assistant working within one desk's subject and style. The draft is then checked against its sources by a separate fact-checking pass, and finally read, edited and approved by a person. Nothing is published automatically: an article goes live only after a named person has reviewed it, and the article says who that was and when.

Use of AI

We use AI to draft and to check consistency, and we say so. We do not publish unedited machine output, and we do not present AI-written text as the personal experience of a human author. Responsibility for what appears in the Journal rests with the person who reviews it.

Sources and facts

Every article lists at least two sources at the bottom of the page: research papers, books, institutions or reputable publications. We prefer primary sources over summaries. Where the evidence is mixed or uncertain, the article says so rather than choosing the more exciting reading.

Corrections and updates

If you find a mistake, tell us through the contact page. Factual errors are corrected in the article, and a substantial change is marked with an “Updated” date. An article that can no longer be defended is withdrawn.

Independence

Advertising, where it appears, is placed by an automated ad service and has no influence on what we write. Ads are never mixed into the text of an article or into the discussion under it.

Comments

Articles can be discussed under the text. Disagreement is welcome; rudeness is not. Comments are checked automatically before they appear, and readers who have had an account for a while can flag a comment as impolite or off-topic. Flagged comments are hidden until the editor reviews them. Comments never carry votes or rankings.