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Every ranking you submit is a full ordering, not a single vote. An item placed at position r on a list of N items earns N minus r plus 1 points, and each item's average points across the ballots that included it is then smoothed toward the list average. That smoothing is what stops one enthusiastic ballot from spiking an item to the top, and it is why an item needs sustained agreement across independent rankers to hold a high position.

The full method, including a worked example you can check by hand, is on the methodology page.

Rankings are recalculated from the ballots on every page load rather than stored as a frozen leaderboard. A new ballot anywhere on the list shifts the list average, which nudges every item that is still leaning on that average, including items the new ballot never mentioned. Adding or removing an item changes the point value of every position too, so the whole list re-sorts.

Items with only a handful of ballots are pulled toward the list average, because a small number of ballots is not enough evidence to justify either the top or the bottom. A newcomer starts near the middle and moves as real support arrives. While that is true it carries a Rising badge, which appears when an item was added in the last 30 days, still has fewer ballots than the list threshold, and the list has at least three rankers.

Yes, as often as you like. Open the list, hit Rank This, reorder, and save. You hold exactly one ballot per list, so re-ranking replaces your previous ballot rather than adding a second one. Nobody can vote twice by voting again.

It measures disagreement, not quality. Each item gets a score for how widely rankers spread its position, and those scores are combined across the list. A list shows the label only once it has ten genuine ballots; below that, a label would be a verdict about two or three people. The most contested item is the one rankers disagree about most, and an item needs at least three ballots to qualify.

You can use Google, Discord, an email address and password, or a one-time magic link sent to your inbox. Some in-app browsers, for example when you open a link from Instagram or Messenger, block Google sign-in; in that case you are switched to the magic link automatically. Confirming your email address matters, because list creation stays locked until it is confirmed.

Your profile shows your public lists, the lists you have ranked, your bio and your join date. Turning on the private profile setting means new followers have to send a request you approve before they can follow you; people who already follow you are unaffected. The details you can add in settings are never shown publicly. Country feeds the country filter on list pages; age and gender are stored for a comparison view that is not built yet.

The privacy toggle lives in profile settings.

Two things unlock list creation: rank at least one list, and confirm your email address. That is the whole gate. It exists because someone who has never ranked anything has not yet seen how ballots work, and because a confirmed email is the cheapest defense against throwaway spam accounts. For the first seven days after unlocking there is also a cap of five new lists per week, which lifts automatically. An active strike on your account puts creation on hold until it is resolved.

Open the create page and the wizard walks you through a title, a category, and your items. The order you leave items in becomes your own first ballot on that list, so put real thought into it. Lists publish immediately, with no review queue in between. A list works best when the items are genuinely comparable and there are enough of them to argue about, roughly eight or more.

Start one at /create.

Yes, and you do not need to own the list. Start ranking it and you will find a "See something missing?" control under the ranking editor that adds an item to the pool, one per ranking session. The site tries to fetch a suitable image for it automatically. Everyone who has already ranked that list gets a single notification so they can revisit and place the newcomer, and repeated additions to the same list roll up into one notification rather than a stream of them.

Use the flag control on the item image or the comment. You pick a reason, such as wrong content, low quality, NSFW, spam, harassment or copyright, and can add a note. You cannot flag your own content or flag the same thing twice, and there is a limit of ten flags per person per day so the queue stays usable. Copyright reports have their own follow-up form asking for the original source, so I can act on them properly.

Every flag lands in a moderation queue that gets reviewed by hand. When content posted by a very new account collects three open flags it is neutralized automatically while it waits for that review, so obvious abuse does not stay up for hours. Content from established accounts is never auto-hidden, which keeps a coordinated pile-on from silencing someone, and flags stay open in the queue either way until a human closes them.

Notification settings give you a per-category switch, a frequency choice between per-event and a daily digest where it makes sense, a mute-everything button, and a pause option when you just need a quiet week. Every email from the site also carries a one-click unsubscribe link in its footer that works without signing in. Account and security emails, such as email verification and password resets, always send, because switching those off would lock people out of their own accounts.

Manage them in notification settings.

Email support@ranklist.io from the address on your account and ask for deletion, and I will remove the account. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored, why, and how long it is kept, including the approximate location attached to a ballot that powers the regional ranking views.

Read the privacy policy or email support@ranklist.io.