Contributor Guidelines

A rating is one tap. It says how good you think something is and nothing more, and that's a complete contribution — enough ratings on a product is itself an answer.

A comment is where the knowledge lives. It can be a sentence or several paragraphs; what matters is that it comes from experience rather than from a product description.

The best of them read like the advice you'd give a friend who asked "is this actually worth it?"

The ones worth reading are specific, honest, and grounded in real use. Not every comment needs all of these — one of them, said precisely, beats all five said vaguely:

• Context. Where and how you use it — daily wear, weekend trips, studio work.
• Duration. How long you've owned it. A week tells a different story than three years.
• Reasoning. Why it's worth it (or not) — not just "I love it" but what specifically works or doesn't.
• Comparisons. How it stacks up against alternatives you've tried.
• A verdict. A clear takeaway — worth it, skip it, worth it if…

Ten people talking about one product read like an archive. The same ten spread across a hundred products read like everywhere else. Depth on one page is worth more here than a sentence on fifty.

Anything you write must be based on genuine, personal experience with the product. This means you have used, owned, worn, or meaningfully interacted with the product yourself — not just read about it, watched a video, or seen it in a store.

If your relationship with a product is "I want this," that's fine — just be honest about it. Saying why you're drawn to something, and being clear you don't own it yet, is worth reading too.

Ratings and comments must be given freely, without payment, free product, discounts, or any other benefit offered in exchange. This is non-negotiable.

The value of Talkshop depends entirely on the honesty of its contributors. If people can't trust that an opinion here is someone's real one, the whole thing breaks.

• Affiliate pitches. Don't write as a creator earning commission on the product.
• Mass-posting or gaming. Write when you have something worth saying.
• Low-effort content. "Great product!" or "Love it" without substance doesn't meet the bar.
• Unverified claims. Ground what you say in actual ownership and experience.
• Harassment or personal attacks. Critique products, not people.

What you write sits on a product page that ranks in search results, and it stays attributed to you. It compounds — say enough about boots and you become the person to read on boots here.

You're not building an audience. You're building a portfolio of expertise that other people will find, trust, and cite. Your knowledge deserves a better home than a Reddit thread that dies after 48 hours.