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Fair Ranking
A ranked list where staking lifts an entry, each extra vote costs more, and downvoting a big stake costs less.
How it works
Anyone can list an entry by staking tokens on it. More stake moves the entry up the list. Votes come from an exponential curve: each extra upvote on the same entry costs more tokens than the last, so one rich backer cannot buy the top cheaply. Anyone can downvote an entry by paying tokens, and the price of a downvote falls as the stake behind the entry grows. The downvote payment goes to the entry's owner, not to a pool. Highly ranked entries are therefore the easiest to pull down, and nobody owns the list.
Use it when
- You need a shared list (of apps, sites, or members) that no one owns.
- Rank entries by economic backing without letting the richest entries sit unchallenged.
Watch out for
- Few downvoters: if nobody pays to downvote, a well-funded entry stays on top.
- Without a cap on total votes, one party with enough tokens can dominate the list.
Example
Dap.ps. Dap.ps launched in 2019 as a directory of dApps ranked by staked SNT (the Status token), following Andy Tudhope's design, where downvote payments went to the dApp developers.