The leaderboard

How the ranking works

Ratings are anonymous — no account, no profile, no vote history tied to a person. The board is not a raw popularity count, because raw counts reward whatever happened to be shown most. Instead each visual is scored with a Wilson lower bound, the pessimistic end of the confidence interval around its approval rate, so a visual with three upvotes cannot leapfrog one with nine hundred.

A visual has to clear three gates before it appears at all: at least five total votes, at least three upvotes, and an approval rate of 55% or better. If fewer than five visuals qualify, nothing is published — an almost-empty leaderboard is easy to game and tells you nothing.

The table is regenerated once a day by a scheduled job and served as a static file, so reading it costs nothing no matter how many people look. If you want the full detail — the identity model, the rate limits, and why the maths is shaped this way — it is written up in how we implement a mass-scale thumbs up and thumbs down.

Seeds are deterministic: the same four digits always produce the same visual, which is what makes ranking them meaningful in the first place. Launching a ranked seed shows you exactly what everyone else voted on.