Moderation Policy
GhostedBy Publishes One Number About a Company: How Often Candidates Who Reported an Outcome Were Left Without a Reply. It Is Not a Court, a Blacklist, or a Judgement About an Employer. It Is a Count, and It Is Only Ever as Good as the Sample Behind It, Which Is Why the Sample Is Always Shown.
What a Rating Is Made Of
A Ghosted Rating is the share of reported outcomes that ended in silence: ghostings divided by ghostings plus responses.
Four things are excluded from that calculation, and the exclusions are enforced in the database rather than in the app. Applications still waiting on a reply never count, so a company is not penalised for taking its time. Outcomes from contributors who have not verified an email address never count. Outcomes attached to a company record that has been flagged or merged never count. Deleted records never count.
A rating is never shown without the number of outcomes behind it. Below five outcomes we show the counts and withhold the percentage entirely, because “100% Ghosted” from two reports looks like a finding when it is really an unknown.
The Waiting Period
An application cannot be marked as ghosted until 21 days after it was submitted. The check runs on every path that writes an outcome, including the quick report, so there is no route into the record that skips it.
The point is to separate silence from slowness. A company that replies on day 20 has not ghosted anyone, and any contact restarts the clock rather than cancelling it.
A tracker can be set to resolve its own applications. With confirmation turned on, nothing moves until the person 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 person whose application it is, and they can correct it from the record afterwards. Nothing is ever resolved as a response automatically: whether a reply arrived is something only the candidate can say.
What Is Never Published
No account of a company is ever published on this site. Not from candidates, not from us, not moderated, not anonymised, not as an excerpt. There is no route by which one person’s opinion of a company becomes public here, and no field anywhere in the product invites one.
One piece of what a candidate typed is public: the role title. A company page lists the roles people reported applying for, with how many of each ended in silence. It is listed without a date, without a contributor and without anything else from that application, and identical titles are folded into a single line. Nothing connects a title back to the person who reported it.
Everything else about an individual application stays private. Application dates, job links, private notes and contributor identity are never exposed, and the aggregate that produces a rating is structurally incapable of returning them.
What is public is a count and a percentage, with the span of months the sample covers once there are enough outcomes for that span to be about a group rather than a person.
Company Records
Not every company here was added by someone reporting an outcome. The directory also includes well-known employers imported so that people have something to find, and companies matched from a public business directory at the moment someone reports. A company appearing here is not evidence that anyone was ghosted by it: until a verified contributor reports an outcome, its page reads “No Rating Yet”, and a rating only ever comes from those reports.
A company record can be flagged or merged. Flagged records drop out of the public listings while they are looked at. Merged records point at the record they were folded into, which is how duplicates are handled without splitting one company’s reputation across two pages.
Applicant tracking system addresses never become a company. A shared host would collapse every customer behind it into one reputation, and a per-customer subdomain would fragment one company across several records. Both are rejected in favour of matching on the company name.
Signed-in users can report a company record as a duplicate, wrong, not a company, or showing suspicious ratings. Those reports go to moderation and are never shown publicly.
Corrections
A contributor can correct their own outcome at any time. If a company replies after being marked as ghosted, changing the record to a response removes that ghosting from the company’s rating.
Corrections that fall outside the normal path require a stated reason, and every status change is appended to a history that only the database can write to. Nobody, including an administrator, can quietly rewrite what a record used to say.
Disputes
A company that believes its rating is wrong can write to us. So can a candidate. Include the company and what specifically appears to be inaccurate.
We will look at whether the underlying outcomes meet the rules on this page, and remove any that do not. We will not remove outcomes that meet the rules because a company would prefer they were not there, and we cannot discuss individual reports, because doing so would expose the contributors this record is built to protect.
Ten Applicants, and How Many Never Heard Back. That Is the Whole of a Ghosted Rating: a Count and a Share, With the Sample Size Beside It. Nothing Above Is a Real Company, and No Percentage Is Shown at All until Five Outcomes Exist.