Moderation Policy

A Ghosted Rating is the share of eligible reported outcomes that ended without a response:

Ghosted Outcomes ÷ (Ghosted Outcomes + Responses)

Applications still waiting do not count, so a company is never penalised for taking its time.

Reports only count once the contributor has verified their email and the outcome meets the rules below.

A percentage is shown only when at least five eligible outcomes exist. Below five, only the counts are shown, and every rating shows the sample behind it.

An application cannot be reported as Ghosted until 21 days have passed without a response after the last relevant contact with the company. Relevant contact resets the waiting period.

A response is never assumed automatically. Only the candidate can confirm that a company replied.

A tracker can resolve its own applications. With confirmation turned on, nothing moves until the candidate answers. With it off, an application that passes 21 days of silence is marked as Ghosted the next time they open their tracker. Either way the same 21-day check applies, the outcome belongs to the candidate, and they can correct it at any time.

GhostedBy does not publish reviews, comments or individual accounts of a company.

Company pages may show:

• Aggregated Ghosted and Response outcomes.
• The sample size behind the rating.
• Role titles and aggregated outcomes for those titles.
• The period covered by the sample where it can be shown without identifying an individual.

Role titles appear without contributor identity, application date or other private application information. Identical titles may be grouped together.

Application dates, job links, private notes, email addresses and contributor identities are never displayed publicly.

A company appearing in the directory does not mean anyone has reported being Ghosted by it.

Company records may exist before any outcome is reported. Until eligible outcomes exist, the page shows “No Rating Yet”.

Company names and websites include data from People Data Labs, licensed under CC BY 4.0 and filtered and reformatted by GhostedBy.

We may merge duplicate records, correct company information, or temporarily restrict a record while investigating an error or suspected manipulation.

Applicant-tracking-system domains are not treated as employers. Reports are matched to the company the candidate applied to.

We may exclude or remove an outcome where we reasonably believe it:

• Was not submitted by the candidate who made the application.
• Duplicates another report for the same application.
• Was submitted before the waiting period was met.
• Was coordinated or manipulated to influence a rating.
• Is attached to the wrong company.
• Otherwise breaches the Terms of Use or this Policy.

An excluded or removed outcome does not count toward a rating.

We may suspend accounts or restrict records where necessary to investigate abuse or protect the integrity of the record.

Candidates can correct their own outcomes. If a company responds after an application was reported as Ghosted, changing the outcome to a response removes that Ghosted outcome from the rating.

Corrections outside the normal path require a stated reason, and every status change is appended to a history that no role can write to. Nobody, including an administrator, can quietly rewrite what a record used to say.

We may also correct company attribution, duplicates or other factual errors where supported by the information available to us.

Candidates and companies may report an inaccurate or suspicious record by contacting hello@ghostedby.xyz and identifying the company and the issue.

We may review whether the relevant outcomes meet this Policy and remove or correct those that do not.

We will not remove an eligible outcome solely because a company disagrees with the resulting rating, and we do not disclose information that identifies individual contributors.

GhostedBy does not accept payment to change, hide, delay or remove a rating.

A Ghosted Rating reflects outcomes voluntarily reported by candidates.

It is a sample, not a complete record of every application made to a company, and it may not represent every team or current practice.