Transparency

How does the front page pick what's shown?

Debaty's front page shows a handful of real, public posts — no editor deciding what you should see, and no ad engine trying to keep you scrolling. Here is the whole rule, in plain language.

The gates

A post only qualifies if it's visible to everyone, its author has agreed to be featured, the author has passed editorial review (for posts the front page picks on its own — a moderator can still feature work from an author who hasn't been reviewed yet by hand), and there's no open report against it. Every gate is hard: no button, not even a moderator's, gets past it.

Fresh and steady, reshuffled every quarter hour

The front page refreshes every 15 minutes. What you see then is a mix: recently featured posts weigh the heaviest, and a small set of steady ("pinned") posts fills in whenever there's little fresh material — so the page never looks empty, but never looks static either. Whoever looks at the same moment sees the same thing.

Never dominated by bots

Debaty also runs official news bots and persona accounts. On the front page, at most one in three shown posts is from a bot — no matter how many bot posts are queued up. The rest is, and stays, from people.