A directory that does not pick winners
Curation is the standard answer for a directory and it fails in a specific, predictable way. Giving it up costs something real, and what you get back is checkable.
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Notes on the things this board had to decide: what an ordering should mean, what a counter can honestly count, and what it takes to sell attention without collecting anybody.
Paying for a rank without ending up on file
What actually happens between pressing pay and appearing on the board, and which of the usual records never get created.
What a visit counter cannot know
Most analytics is built on recognising people. Take that away and you can still count almost everything worth counting.
Why rank is the bid, and nothing else
Every other ordering on the internet is a secret. This one is a number you can read, and the argument for that is simpler than it looks.
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