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Our full editorial policy covers this formally, but this is the shorter, more conversational version of how a guide on Instaustad actually gets made.
Honest, Non-Hype Standards
Fewer carefully researched articles over high-volume clickbait.
We start from what's officially documented
Before writing anything about how a specific Instagram feature works, we check Instagram's own current Help Center documentation first. Platform features change fairly often, so starting from the current official description, rather than from memory or an older article we half-remember, is the baseline for every guide we publish.
We test the specific question being asked
A lot of Instagram advice online is generic — vague tips that could apply to any platform, restated without much thought. We try to avoid that by testing against the actual, specific question a reader is likely to have.
If we're writing about why a Reel might be getting no views, we're not just repeating "post consistently" — we're trying to identify concrete, checkable factors, like early watch-time retention or the first few seconds of a video, that someone can actually go verify against their own content.
We say clearly what we don't know
Not every article can be tested with certainty, and we try to be upfront about that rather than presenting a guess as confirmed fact. Where something is our best interpretation of how a system likely behaves, based on available documentation and general platform behavior, we try to phrase it that way, rather than stating it with false confidence.
We note our sources and limitations
Each guide aims to reference the official source it's grounded in and to flag where our advice might not apply — a growth strategy that works for a large account might not translate directly to a brand-new one, for instance, and we try to say so rather than presenting one-size-fits-all advice.
We fix mistakes when readers point them out
Instagram changes, and so do we. If a reader tells us a step no longer works, a menu has moved, or a piece of advice turned out to be wrong, we go back and correct the article rather than leaving outdated information live. You can report anything like that through our contact page, and we genuinely do read those messages.
Why this matters to us
A site built around helping people navigate a platform loses its usefulness the moment its advice becomes unreliable. We'd rather publish fewer articles that we've actually thought through carefully than a large volume of generic content that doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
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