Ranking Detail
How the public square was counted
This view explains the live ranking. It combines popular and latest comments from trending clips, deduplicates repeated comments, then ranks commentors by total likes received. Reply counts are shown as conversation context, but they do not add score yet.
Collection Mix
A comment can be discovered by both popular and latest scans, but it is counted once.
Score Rule
- Fetch current trending clips for the selected region.
- Read top-level comments by popularity and recency, including their reply counts.
- Merge duplicate comment IDs across both scans.
- Group comments by author profile URL or display name.
- Rank by total comment likes, then comment count, then latest activity. Replies are displayed on demand as context, not scored.
Philosopher Legend
HallOfFame previewComments that open a public question and pull others into argument.
Comments about justice, beauty, society, and the shape of a better world.
Comments that classify, compare, explain, and balance evidence.
Short, sharp comments that puncture status, vanity, or hype.
Comments carried by eloquence, persuasion, and civic performance.
Comments built around memory, regret, faith, inner life, and conversion.
Comments that reconcile belief, logic, tradition, and argument.
Comments that read incentives, strategy, influence, and political survival.
Comments that provoke, overturn values, or turn taste into a declaration.
Comments about respect, generations, duty, order, and shared conduct.
No philosopher Local Votes yet. The bars will grow as visitors classify comments.
Commentor Archetype Lens
Philosopher styleThe card archetypes are not literal philosopher judgments. They are iconic philosopher-style lenses for reading what role a commentor plays in the public square.
For now, the lens uses structural signals such as like share, repeated appearances, clip spread, replies, and whether a commentor appears in popular and latest scans.
Score Examples
The base ranking still follows public approval: likes collected by each commentor.
Ties favor people who appear across more comments and more clips.
The scan mixes already-liked comments with fresh comments so the ranking is not only old momentum.
HallOfFame can later add a philosophy layer: questioning, rhetoric, power, wit, confession, or synthesis.
Hall of Fame History Score
Historical canonHall of Fame adds a history layer on top of live YouTube likes and Local Vote. A commentor who keeps returning across saved snapshots gains durability, not just one lucky viral moment.
In each snapshot, #1 gives 10 points, #10 gives 1 point, and ranks after #10 give 0. Scores accumulate across snapshots.
Only the current consecutive appearance count is squared. No extra multiplier is applied.
Each saved snapshot where the commentor appears adds 1 point. This keeps the early service modest before scheduled batches exist.
Example: 45 total rank points, a 6-snapshot streak, and 12 appearances add 45 + 6x6 + 12 = 93 history points.
Used when one representative utterance moves the square. A single question or sentence carries the ranking.
Used when a commentor appears repeatedly across clips and comments. It rewards a voice that keeps returning.
Used when words pull replies and reaction. A short strong statement becomes the spark of argument.
Used when a commentor is found by both popular and latest scans, linking established support with fresh response.
Used for a stable signal that has not exploded yet. It records small evidence in the public square.