How to Use Maybe
Maybe is a place to think. Not a place to get answers.
Something brought you here. Maybe curiosity. Maybe a name you kept hearing. Maybe a feeling you couldn’t quite shake.
Whatever it was — welcome. You’re in the right place to think it through.
Here’s how Maybe works, and what we want you to know before you dive in.
We summarize. We don’t conclude.
Every summary on Maybe represents what a speaker actually said — as accurately and fairly as we can render it. We don’t tell you whether they’re right. We don’t push you toward a particular interpretation. The conclusion is always yours.
We’ll get things wrong. And we’ll say so.
Maybe is not above the discernment it asks of its readers. We’re human. We misread things. We miss context. We make calls on what’s significant and sometimes we’ll get that wrong too. When we do, we correct the record openly — not quietly, not defensively. A correction is noted at the bottom of the relevant summary with a date.
Nothing here is advice.
Not medical. Not financial. Not life advice of any kind. If something you read here touches a health question, a financial decision, or a major life choice — please talk to a qualified human being. Maybe can be a starting point for curiosity. It cannot be a substitute for professional guidance.
We always tell you what kind of claim you’re reading.
Peer-reviewed science looks different from channeled wisdom looks different from remote viewing looks different from personal experience. We label them. We score predictions on specificity and transparency. You always know what you’re weighing.
How Maybe Keeps Score
Big claims are easy to make and easy to forget. We write them down. When one comes due, we say plainly what happened — including when the answer is no.
Every tracked claim carries three scores. None of them measure whether a claim is true. They measure how checkable it is.
Specificity — how concrete is it?
A claim that names a date and an event can be checked. “Everything will shift soon” cannot. Low means vague; high means it says what, and when, out loud.
Transparency — does the voice show their work?
Some sources explain where an idea comes from. Others ask you to take their word. Low means “trust me”; high means reasoning you can follow and weigh yourself.
Prior Accuracy — what’s their record so far?
This one is earned slowly. Until a voice has at least three resolved claims on our board, their profile says “Not enough resolved claims yet.” A number built on one or two results would be false precision, and inventing precision is exactly what this site exists to avoid.
A worked example
- Ismael Perez’s claim about a secret meeting ending the CCP shows our correction policy in action, not just in theory. It was first marked Didn’t Happen. On review, we realized a secret, closed-door claim can never be publicly disproven — only shown unsubstantiated — so we moved it to Unconfirmed and said so, with the date, right on the claim page. That’s what “we correct the record openly” means in practice.
What the verdicts mean
- Pending — the deadline hasn’t arrived.
- Partly Confirmed — some of it held up; we spell out which part.
- Confirmed — it happened, checked against real sources.
- Unsubstantiated — no public evidence shows it happened. Not a claim of false — just unproven.
- Didn’t Happen — it clearly did not. This verdict is permanent.
What Maybe will never do
Tell you what to believe.
Take payment for placement, coverage, or kind treatment.
Delete a miss — ours or theirs.
Pretend a number knows more than it does.
Who keeps score
Maybe is run by Jason Smith in Calgary — a founder with a name, because anonymous scorekeeping is how grift patterns start, and you deserve to know whose homework you’re reading. We’re ordinary people doing careful homework, not experts handing down rulings.
One more thing, said once and warmly: summaries here are drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed, checked, and approved by a human before anything is published. The judgment — what gets tracked, what a verdict says, what an error costs — is human. That’s the part that can’t be delegated.
Take what resonates. Question everything — including us.
That’s not a disclaimer. That’s the whole point.
Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not. You decide.