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What will PanelCompare not list or monetise?
Last updated by The PanelCompare editorial team
What is actually being excluded?
Mainstream panels openly sell services whose only purpose is to damage a third party. Every row below was found on live, indexed panels during the catalogue survey.
| Service | Observed price | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit downvotes | $12–$38 per 1,000 — priced above upvotes | Competitor posts and comments |
| Telegram negative reactions | $0.05–$1.30 per 1,000 | Competitor channels |
| Negative or competitor reviews | $3–$12 per review | Rival businesses |
| Negative-review removal | ~$1.20 per review | Reputation laundering |
| Account and post mass-reporting | $7–$50 | Rival creators |
| Steam “-Rep” comments | $54 per 1,000 | Individual users |
Source: PanelCompare domain research, 2026-09-06.
These are tortious in most jurisdictions as well as prohibited by the platforms, and several are aimed at private individuals. They are flagged in the service taxonomy so they can be filtered programmatically rather than by memory.
Why exclude rather than rank down?
Because a scoring penalty is a statement that the thing is acceptable at a discount. A panel that asks for a password is not a worse panel; it is a different kind of operation, and leaving it in the index at position forty would still be recommending it to someone. The same reasoning applies to review-buying: the traffic is small and the liability is not, so it earns no placement at any price.
The lines are stated here as well as in the disclosure page because an editorial rule that only exists in a policy document is not one a reader can hold the site to.
Think this answer is wrong?
Prices, refill terms and platform policies in this market all move, so an answer that was right in September may not be right in December. Every figure above names its source and the date it was checked; if one of them is stale or wrong, the correction process on the about page has a two-working-day reply target, and corrections are published with a dated note rather than quietly patched.