Rankings

The rankings page lists people by the points they have earned. It is public: anyone can read it without an account.

It shows a display name, a points total, a rank, and a small activity summary — how many votes cast, how many polls run. It shows nothing else. Email addresses are never rendered, and neither is anything about which polls somebody took part in.

Time periods

Four views of the same board:

• All time — every point ever earned. This is the default.
• This year, this month, this week — only points earned inside that window.

A period counts the transactions inside it, reversals included. Somebody whose points were awarded and then reversed in the same month nets to zero for that month and does not appear.

An account with no points in the chosen period is left out rather than listed at zero.

Equal totals share a rank

Ranking is competition style: two people on the same total hold the same rank, and the next different total skips the position they consumed.

1.  Ana        50 points
2.  Rui        30 points
2.  Beatriz    30 points
4.  Tomás      10 points

There is no third place in that example, because two people hold second. Rows are printed in a stable order so the page does not shuffle between reloads, but that order is presentation only — it does not break the tie, and both rows show the same number.

Ranks stay correct across pages. The first row of page two is numbered by how many people outscore it, not by its position in the list, so a tie that straddles a page boundary still shows one number.

Keeping yourself off the board

Any account can leave the public rankings, from Settings → Privacy.

While you are hidden:

• Other people cannot see you — not by browsing, not by searching your name, not by changing the period, and not by paging to the end.
• You keep every point. Opting out is a display setting; it does not touch the ledger.
• You can still see your own standing. The page shows you the position you would occupy, counted against the real board rather than pretending the people ahead of you are not there.

New accounts appear by default, which is disclosed on the page itself. You can turn it off before earning anything, and turn it back on later; nothing is lost either way.

Why it is public at all

A points system whose results nobody can inspect is not a transparent one. Publishing the board is what makes the rules in Points checkable: if a total looks impossible for the activity behind it, that is visible rather than hidden.

The cost of that is a name and a number being public, which is why the opt-out exists and why nothing beyond a name and a number is ever shown.