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Cite primary sources for platform rules
When we write about platform rules, monetization, copyright, children's content, terms of service, or account enforcement, we aim to cite the relevant platform, regulator, or official policy page.
Content Standards
How Upstream keeps live streaming guides accurate, useful, and current.
Upstream guides explain live streaming platforms, live streaming software, multistreaming workflows, pre-recorded live streaming, product features, and platform policy changes that can affect broadcasts.
Baseline
Practical guidance for live streaming platforms, streaming workflows, product features, and platform policy.
02
Separate product facts from workflow advice
When a guide describes Upstream features, it should reflect the current product. When it gives workflow advice, it should explain assumptions and avoid guaranteeing platform outcomes.
03
Show meaningful updates
Guides show their published date and, when meaningfully changed, a visible updated date near the byline.
Policy-sensitive topics
Policy, copyright, monetization, and platform rules need primary sources.
Some live streaming topics sit close to legal, safety, or platform-compliance decisions. These include COPPA, copyright claims and strikes, monetization, ads, platform terms, and account enforcement.
For those guides, Upstream aims to link to official platform, legal, or regulator sources, call out uncertainty when platform wording changes, and add a reviewer line only when a real person has checked the content before publication.
Upstream guides are informational and product-focused. They are not legal advice.
Corrections
Send the page URL and a source for the correction.
If a guide is outdated, missing a source, or unclear, send the page URL and a reference source to contact@upstream.so.
The team prioritizes corrections that affect platform compliance, creator safety, monetization, or whether a reader can complete a live streaming workflow.