Scoring & skill tiers
Each skill’s total score is a weighted sum of votes; its tier updates as vote count and score change. Thresholds live in site constants—the numbers here match the running system.
How the score works
- Shit: +2
- Laugh: +1
- Useful (up): −1
- Boring: −1
One active vote per user per skill; changing your vote recalculates score and tier immediately.
Tiers & gates
- Latrine: new skills start here until they reach 30 votes.
- At 30 votes, first split: score ≥ 10 → Septic Tank, otherwise → Sediment.
- Septic Tank: between 30 and 100 votes, if score drops below 10, the skill falls to Sediment.
- Above 100 votes while still in Septic Tank: score ≥ 40 → The Shit; score < 10 → Sediment; in between → stay in Septic Tank.
- The Shit: once promoted, the tier never drops (vote count and score still update for display).
- Sediment: still reachable by link and votable, but hidden from home and square lists; authors always see their own sediment skills on their profile.
Notes
Lists rank higher tiers first; within a tier, newest first.