Collection scope
The collector reads selected YouTube Trending regions and categories. Public pages reuse saved snapshots; opening a page does not start a YouTube collection.
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.
Commentors50
Comments Counted52
Trending Clips6
Comment Likes84,288
Comment Replies805
Collection Mix
Popular comments47 / 87.0%
Latest comments7 / 13.0%
Seen in both2 / 3.8%
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 previewSocrates
Comments that open a public question and pull others into argument.
Local Vote0
Plato
Comments about justice, beauty, society, and the shape of a better world.
Local Vote0
Aristotle
Comments that classify, compare, explain, and balance evidence.
Local Vote0
Diogenes
Short, sharp comments that puncture status, vanity, or hype.
Local Vote0
Cicero
Comments carried by eloquence, persuasion, and civic performance.
Local Vote0
Augustine
Comments built around memory, regret, faith, inner life, and conversion.
Local Vote0
Aquinas
Comments that reconcile belief, logic, tradition, and argument.
Local Vote0
Machiavelli
Comments that read incentives, strategy, influence, and political survival.
Local Vote0
Nietzsche
Comments that provoke, overturn values, or turn taste into a declaration.
Local Vote0
Confucius
Comments about respect, generations, duty, order, and shared conduct.
Local Vote0
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
InfluenceTotal comment likes
The base ranking still follows public approval: likes collected by each commentor.
PersistenceComment count
Ties favor people who appear across more comments and more clips.
Public SquarePopular + latest
The scan mixes already-liked comments with fresh comments so the ranking is not only old momentum.
ArchetypeStyle and field
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.
History = rank score + current streak² + appearances
Rank Score11 - rank
In each snapshot, #1 gives 10 points, #10 gives 1 point, and ranks after #10 give 0. Scores accumulate across snapshots.
StreakConsecutive snapshots
Only the current consecutive appearance count is squared. No extra multiplier is applied.
AppearancesSnapshots found
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.
Top Commentor Breakdown
Top share: 18.4%115,546
210,569
39,206
47,700
57,450
65,034
75,027
83,743
93,432
102,467
Clips Driving the Ranking
Scope and limitations
How to read this record
Operational context for collection, ranking, participation signals, translation, and corrections.
Cadence and freshness
Collection runs through an operator-controlled scheduled or manual refresh, so a daily capture is not guaranteed. Each edition shows its exact UTC capture time, and archives preserve qualifying stored dates.
Selection and reactions
Ranking starts with stored comment likes, comment count, and recent activity. Replies describe conversation intensity, while representative editorial labels use disclosed fixed signals and do not diagnose a person.
Local Vote and Hall of Fame
Local Vote is a separate site-participation signal. Hall of Fame combines stored YouTube reactions, local participation, snapshot appearances, rank history, and streaks as described above.
Translation and archetypes
Translation is an optional accessibility aid and may miss tone, slang, or cultural context. Philosopher and Commentor archetypes are interpretive lenses, not personality, mental-health, or moral judgments.
Corrections and removals
Attribution, source, privacy, removal, and misleading-context concerns can be submitted under the Correction Policy. Historical meaning is considered together with safety and accuracy.
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.