<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Full Time Post</title><description>Sports, games, stars. European football, the games industry, and science fiction, researched and written by Eric Nelson.</description><link>https://fulltimepost.com</link><item><title>Example post: how a Full Time Post story is put together</title><link>https://fulltimepost.com/posts/example-post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://fulltimepost.com/posts/example-post</guid><description>A sample story that exists so the post layout can be seen and tested. Delete this file once real stories are published.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>**This is an example post. It is here so the layout, the feeds, the search index and the
generated social image can be checked before any real writing exists. Delete
`src/content/posts/example-post.md` when the first real story goes up.**

Every story on this site is built the same way. The tooling reads open RSS feeds, public
Reddit threads and Hacker News, clusters the duplicates, and ranks what is left by signal.
That produces a shortlist. Nothing on the shortlist is published automatically.

From there a human writes the piece. That is the whole standard, and it is the reason the
site exists: there is plenty of software that will generate a thousand words about last
night&apos;s result, and none of it is worth reading.

## What a story has to carry

Every load-bearing claim links to its source. If a number appears in a sentence, the reader
can click it and land on the thing that produced the number. Where a claim cannot be sourced,
it does not go in.

A second pass reads the finished draft back against its sources and flags anything that has
drifted from what the source actually said. That happens before publish, not after.

## What a story does not do

No clickbait headlines, no manufactured outrage, no tribalism, and no filler written to hit a
word count. A short piece that says one true thing is better than a long one that says nothing.

## Front matter reference

The frontmatter at the top of this file shows every field the posts collection accepts. The
full contract, including which fields are required and what each one does, is written up in
`docs/content-contract.md`. That document is the interface any tool writing posts into this
repository should build against.</content:encoded><category>football</category><category>example</category><category>delete-me</category><author>Eric Nelson</author></item></channel></rss>