How we work together here

Remote Work Anywhere exists to help people find places that genuinely work to work from, and to make a fair, honest call on whether somewhere is worth moving to. The whole thing leans on three things members give it: the spots they add, the reports they file, and the judgement they apply to both.

• Honesty over hype — a venue's score is computed from filed reports, never estimated or guessed. We would rather show a blank than a number we made up.
• Useful over polished — a one-line tip from someone who was actually there beats a paragraph of marketing copy every time.
• Yours, and everyone's — what you contribute is shown publicly under your name, because the registry is only as good as the trust behind it.

This is a working community, not a comments section. The bar is ordinary decency:

• Be real — use your own name, file your own reports, and don't invent a venue or a visit to pad a leaderboard.
• Be fair — review the place, not the person. No harassment, hate, personal attacks or doxxing — directed at a venue's staff, another member, or anyone else.
• Be useful — write the tip you wish you'd read before you went. Specifics (the back room is quieter, the power is under the window) help; vibes don't.
• Don't spam — no self-promotion, affiliate links, or repeated submissions of the same spot to game points or visibility.
• Don't mislead — don't file a report for a place you haven't worked from, or claim a wifi speed you didn't measure or reasonably estimate.

The single most important rule: report what you actually found, and say how you know. The whole registry collapses if the numbers are guessed, so every report carries a record of where its figures came from.

• Measured wifi — if you ran the in-app speed test, that figure is stored as measured. It is what feeds a venue's average, and it is the most useful thing you can contribute.
• Manual wifi — if you typed a speed from memory or a rough estimate, it's stored as manual — still welcome, but labelled so the average stays honest about what it's built on.
• Your own visit — reports are tied to your account and your display name. A report filed by you is a statement that you were there.
• No fabrication — a venue's aggregated stats are recomputed from its real reports by the engine — there is no field on a Place a member can set to inflate a score.

“Verified” means something specific here. It is not a badge you can earn by posting a lot — it is the record of an actual check against an actual source.

• Resources — every tool in the library is checked against the vendor's own pricing page, and the date we last checked it is shown. If the page or the price is gone, that's the thing to flag.
• Spots — a venue's stats are the community average of its filed reports — they update as more people file, and they never claim a precision the report count doesn't support.
• Checklist items — anything touching visas, tax or immigration is phrased as a prompt to check, never as advice. Community suggestions land as pending until reviewed, so nothing passes itself off as our curated guidance.

We are a community of remote workers sharing what worked for us, not lawyers, accountants or immigration advisers. Treat anything here about visas, tax, residency or insurance as a starting point to check with the relevant authority or a qualified professional — not as a recommendation. Your situation is your own, and the rules change.

If a contribution breaks these guidelines, we may:

• Remove it — a fabricated report, a duplicate spot, or an abusive tip comes down.
• Withhold it — a community checklist item stays pending until a moderator reviews it; a clearly bad-faith one won't be published.
• Step back the account — repeated or serious breaches can cost points, badges or the ability to contribute. We'd rather not, and we'd rather talk to you first.

If you see something that shouldn't be here — a report that looks invented, a spot that doesn't exist, or behaviour that crosses a line — flag it. The registry is self-correcting only if people tell us when it's gone wrong.