Editorial Policy

Independence from operators

sky-city.bet carries an affiliate relationship with the operator and discloses it on every page that links out. Independence means that the operator does not approve articles before publication, cannot ask for a rewrite after publication, and cannot add or remove items from a list. The affiliate contract pays by referral, not by sentiment — there is no higher rate for a positive review and no penalty for a critical one. That separation is the reason we can publish wagering caps, bet limits and bonus terms as they are rather than as the marketing team would prefer.

Independence also means we are willing to be wrong in public. When a page cites a wagering requirement that was changed on the operator side without notice, the page gets a correction note at the bottom with the date and the old figure so that the archive of what was said when is preserved. The alternative — quietly updating the text and pretending nothing moved — reads well for a search engine and badly for a reader who signed up on the old terms.

Sources

Our primary source is the operator's own public materials — the bonus terms page, the payment methods page, the responsible gaming page, and the games lobby. Where a figure matters (a maximum cashout, a wagering multiplier, a payout window), we check it on the operator's live site rather than copying it from another affiliate. For context — regulatory decisions, provider news, help-line contacts — we cite the regulator, the provider or the help organisation directly. Where a secondary source is used, the linked article is named in the text.

Secondary sources we rely on with no embarrassment: the Australian Communications and Media Authority for interactive-gambling enforcement, the state-level gambling commissions for licence conditions, and the game providers' own product pages for RTP figures and volatility ratings. Secondary sources we treat with caution: other affiliates, aggregator sites that scrape bonus terms, and forum threads that may be weeks out of date. When an affiliate's figure disagrees with the operator's live page, the operator's live page wins and the affiliate's page is noted as stale.

Corrections

Mistakes get fixed as soon as we know about them. A substantive correction — a wrong wagering figure, a wrong payout window, an obsolete bonus — is marked at the bottom of the page with the date and a short note on what changed. Typo-level fixes are made silently. Anyone who spots an error is welcome to flag it through the Contact page; we do not need an explanation of why the fix matters, only enough to find the claim and the source.

Corrections are not a sign that the editorial system is working poorly; they are a sign that it is working. A page with no correction history on a site that has been running for a year is a page nobody has checked. We would rather carry a visible correction note than quietly rewrite the paragraph and hope no reader noticed.

Principles

Three house rules sit behind every article on this site. First, every number has a source we can show on request. Second, bonus terms and limits appear next to the offer, not three clicks away — a reader should not have to search for the wagering requirement or the maximum cashout. Third, the responsible-gaming footer appears on every page, with a help-line number large enough to read on a phone. These rules are not negotiable with the commercial side of the business.

A fourth rule is less often stated but just as important: the page should answer the question a reader came with before it tries to persuade them of anything. A guide to the welcome bonus leads with the match percentage, the wagering requirement and the maximum cashout. Only once those are on the screen does the page move on to context — why that wagering figure is normal for an Australian operator, what the bet cap does to the maths, how long the clock gives the player. Reversing the order reads like an ad.

Sponsored content

The site does not publish sponsored articles, paid reviews, guest posts or link insertions. The affiliate relationship with the operator is the only commercial arrangement, and it is disclosed openly. Pitches that offer money for coverage are declined; we would rather have a thin content calendar than a compromised one.

Fact-checking

Before a page goes live, a second person on the editorial team re-checks every number, every date and every outbound link against the source. After publication, long-lived pages — the welcome bonus guide, the payment methods guide, the app download page — are reviewed on a rolling schedule so that stale figures are caught before a reader does. When the operator changes an offer we update on the same day; when a provider launches in the lobby we add the title to the relevant shelf within a working week.