Editorial standards
How these questions are written
Here is how the question sets are made, what this site will not do, and how to tell us when something is wrong.
What this site is
A reference library for conversations you want to prepare for: an interview, a first date, a specialist appointment, a contractor quote, a hard talk with a parent. Each set is a list of questions, and each question carries a short note on why it is worth asking and what the answer tends to reveal.
It is not a magazine, a directory of professionals, or a source of advice. It helps you walk into a room with better questions than you would have thought of under pressure.
How a set is written
- Sets are drafted against a real situation, then ordered so the easy openers come first and the more searching questions come later, once the conversation has warmed up.
- Every question must earn its place with a specific reason to ask it. If the reason could be pasted onto any other question, the question gets rewritten or cut.
- Each set is checked against a schema before it can publish: no empty questions, no duplicated reasoning inside a set, and no page that merely repeats another page.
- Every set is reviewed against those checks before release.
What this site will not do
- No invented numbers. Pages once carried lines like “used by 10,000+ people” in their search descriptions. There was no such data. All 993 of them have been removed, and no popularity, ranking or endorsement claim will be published unless it is measured and verifiable.
- Nothing hidden. Every question on every page is readable for free, with no account, no email wall and no partial list. An earlier version of this site hid 15 of 20 questions behind a checkout that then gave them away; it is gone.
- No paid questions. No advertiser chooses, words, orders or removes a question. If a sponsored set or an affiliate link ever appears, it will be labelled as such on the page, not buried in a policy.
- No advice. Questions to bring to a doctor or a lawyer are not medical or legal advice, and the pages say so where it matters.
How this site is paid for
Display advertising, managed by Mediavine. That is what keeps every question free to read without an account. The ads are placed automatically by an ad network: we do not pick them, and an ad appearing beside a set, including a medical or legal one, is not a recommendation from us.
The network also decides which ad formats run and where they sit, and that changes over time, so this page makes no promise about placement. What it does promise is the part we control: nothing is removed from a page, shortened, or moved behind a sign-up or a payment to make room for advertising, and no advertiser has a say in what a question says. How advertising partners use cookies, and how to opt out of personalised ads, is set out in the privacy policy.
Photography
The site itself carries no photography. The only images are the share cards generated for links, which use public-domain or CC0 photographs printed as a single blue-ink duotone. Attribution is not required by those licences; the photographers are credited anyway on the photo credits page.
Corrections
If a question is wrong, misleading, unkind, or out of date, tell us and it gets fixed or removed. Email [email protected] with the page address. Corrections to substance are made on the page itself rather than quietly.