Editorial Policy

Last updated: July 13, 2026

This page describes how articles on ViceHub are actually produced — not how we would like them to be produced. One person is accountable for every word published here: Boris K., Founder & Editor, ViceHub.

AI is used, and it is disclosed

ViceHub does not pretend that a human types every sentence from a blank page. Guides are researched and drafted with AI assistance, then edited and fact-checked by a named human before they go live. Every article produced this way carries a disclosure on the page itself, not buried in a policy nobody reads:

Researched and drafted with AI assistance, then edited and fact-checked by a human before publication. Every statistic comes from ViceHub's own server data.

That is the standard every article published from July 13, 2026 onwards is held to, and the disclosure on each article is precise about which part of it actually happened. An article a human has edited and fact-checked says so. An article drafted with AI assistance that has not been through that review says only that, and nothing more.

Articles that predate this policy are not being quietly relabelled. Nothing already on the site has been retro-stamped "human-reviewed" to make it look better — an older article is either reviewed properly and then labelled, or it stays labelled as what it is. If the label says a person checked it, a person checked it.

How a guide is made

1. Pick a question worth answering

Topics come from what server owners and players actually get stuck on — framework migrations, script performance, choosing a server — and from gaps ViceHub's own data can answer better than a forum thread can.

2. Research and draft with AI assistance

A large language model is used to research and produce the first draft. It is a drafting tool, not the author: it does not decide what gets published, and it is never the last thing to touch an article.

3. Edit and fact-check

A human reads the draft line by line: claims are checked, anything unverifiable is cut, and every number is replaced with one taken from ViceHub's own server data or a named source. Drafts that cannot be made accurate are not published.

4. Publish, then keep it honest

Publishing is a deliberate human action. After publication, errors are corrected in place and the correction is noted on the article.

Nothing publishes itself

There is no process on ViceHub that can put an article in front of you on its own. The scheduled pipeline that used to generate posts automatically is switched off, every content source it drew from is disabled, and a draft stays a draft — unpublished and invisible — until a person decides it is ready and publishes it. A machine can write a first draft here. It cannot decide that you should read it.

Where the numbers come from

Any player count, population figure, or ranking in a ViceHub guide comes from ViceHub's own measurements, not from a press release and not from another site. ViceHub polls the official Cfx.re master list every five minutes and records what every public FiveM server is actually doing: the raw five-minute detail is kept for seven days, and each day is then compressed into a permanent record of that server's average and peak population.

That is the dataset the guides are written from, and it is the reason a statistic here can be checked: the server page it came from shows the same chart. How the crawl, the rankings, and the moderation actually work is written up in full on the methodology page. Where a fact comes from somewhere else, the article names the source and links to it.

Corrections

If something on ViceHub is wrong, it gets fixed. Email admin@vicehub.info with the article URL and what is inaccurate — a link or a screenshot helps.

Factual errors are corrected in place — the article is edited and a dated note at the foot of it records what changed. Corrections are not made silently.
Typos and broken links are simply fixed, with no note.
An article that cannot be made accurate is unpublished rather than left up with a caveat.

What changed in July 2026

Until July 2026, ViceHub ran an automated news pipeline that scanned third-party FiveM sources, rewrote what it found, and published the result without a human reading it first. That was the wrong call: it produced volume rather than anything worth your time, so on 13 July 2026 the pipeline was retired, its sources were switched off, and the 35 articles it had published were unpublished. What remains on the blog are original guides, and everything published from now on follows the policy on this page.

Advertising, money, and independence

ViceHub is funded by advertising, served by Google AdSense, and by ViceHub's own product — the AI ticket-support bot that FiveM communities pay for. That is the whole business model, and it is kept strictly separate from what you read and what you see ranked.

Advertising never affects ranking, approval, or visibility. No script, shop, or server can pay to rank higher, to be approved faster, or to stay visible. Rankings come from community votes, ratings, and measured data — nothing else.
No advertiser has any input into editorial. Advertisers do not see articles before publication, cannot suggest or veto topics, and are not told what is coming.
Ads are labelled and kept apart from content. Where an advert appears, it is visibly an advert. Nothing on ViceHub is a paid placement dressed up as a recommendation, and there is no sponsored or paid-for article on the site.
Listing on ViceHub is free. Creators pay nothing to list a script or a shop, and every public FiveM server already has a page here whether its owner asked for one or not.

If you ever find something on ViceHub that reads like it breaks one of these rules, say so — admin@vicehub.info. A policy nobody can hold you to is just decoration.

Who is accountable

ViceHub is operated by Boris K., an independent sole trader in Bulgaria. He writes the guides, runs the crawler behind the numbers, and answers the mail. Reach him at /contact or read more on the author page.