Frequently asked

The public’s standing for every creator, journalist and public figure: one record for each person, across every platform they are on. People rate them from one to five stars, and the record turns those ratings into a Standing from 0 to 100. News outlets, forums and sites have records too, filed as organisations.

The weighted average of a person’s star ratings, as a number from 0 to 100: (average − 1) ÷ 4 × 100, rounded. 80 and up is High standing, 60–79 Good, 40–59 Mixed, below 40 Low. Nothing is shown until a record has 20 ratings; before that it says “No standing yet” and how many ratings it has.

Yes. Everything is free while we are in beta: reading, rating, lists, claiming your record, the bookmarklet and the public API. Paid plans for creators and newsrooms are planned, but nothing is for sale yet. The pricing page tracks the plan as it firms up.

Creators, journalists, commentators and public figures, with their YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, Twitch and Telegram accounts linked to one record. News outlets, subreddits and websites are on it too, as organisations. Anyone can add a person who is missing.

No. A Standing is a measured opinion: what many people think of someone, weighted and checked with the published method. The measurement is careful; what it measures is still opinion, and we never present a Standing as a statement of fact about a person.

Find them, or paste a link to any of their accounts on the rate page, and give one to five stars with a few words if you want. For journalists, commentators, politicians, outlets and anyone in finance, health, politics or news, you are also asked whether they get their facts right and which way they lean. For people there are three quick traits: Funny, Originality and Cringe. Your rating is public under your username.

A rating shows on the record at once, but it counts toward the Standing only after 36 hours. A coordinated push arrives within hours, so the hold makes it visible before it can move anything.

Funny, Originality and Cringe, each a meter from 0 to 100 on a person’s record. A trait shows once five signed-in raters have answered it. Outlets and organisations have no traits.

Accuracy is whether the public finds someone gets their facts right, from 0 to 100. Lean is which way they tilt politically, as the weighted middle of the votes. Both appear only on journalists, commentators, politicians, outlets and high-stakes fields. When the public finds the facts wrong, the number stays and the word beside it becomes “Facts disputed”.

Yes. Signed in, your own rating leads the ratings on the record with Edit and Delete under it, and the same two buttons sit under each rating on your profile. An edit re-scores the record and keeps the rating’s helpful marks. Delete asks first and cannot be undone: the rating comes off the record and the Standing is worked out again without it, but a record takes one rating per rater and a deleted one keeps its place, so you cannot file a new one there afterwards. To change your mind, edit it instead.

The words the public uses about someone (“well-researched”, “clickbait”, “sponsored”). A word only shows once enough people have applied it.

No. Each rater is weighted by their own record: a trust weight from 0.1 to 1.0 that grows with account age, helpful votes from others, detailed ratings and accepted tags; recent ratings count more than old ones; a rating others found helpful counts up to 30% more; and verified accounts count 20% more.

Several things. The 36-hour hold. Weighting by each rater’s record. Quick taps without an account never publish anything alone, and a day’s taps weigh at most a quarter of what signed-in raters weigh. Accounts under 7 days old do not decide the things the crowd files. And a raid check: more than 20 ratings in an hour, more than 10 lean votes in an hour with 80% on one answer, or more than half an hour’s ratings from week-old low-trust accounts freezes the Standing at its previous value (“Standing frozen”) until a moderator reviews it.

Spam and abuse filtering, a limit of 20 ratings a day per account, the raid check above, and duplicate detection. AI-written ratings are not allowed.

An allegation raised by a member of the public (with sources where they have them), and labelled as one. Established accounts mark it credible or doubtful, and the person it is about can claim their record and respond beside it.

Yes. Anyone can claim their record for free. A claimed record can answer each controversy publicly, beside it and labelled as theirs, and can reply to the people who rated them (a reply reaches the rater; it is not published on the record). Claiming never changes the Standing.

Press Report under any rating on a record (you need to be signed in). Our moderators review every report. You can report ratings for spam, harassment, false claims about a person, or anything else against the community guidelines.

Sign up with an email address and password, or with Google. It is free and takes less than a minute.

Yes. Every rating you file appears under your username, so pick a handle if you would rather not use your name. In Settings you can turn off your public rater profile; your ratings then stay on their records, with no browsable list under your name.

Yes, and it is not a paid feature. Open Settings, then "Your data and invites", and choose Export to download your profile, ratings, votes, lists and follows as JSON.

Open Settings, choose Delete Account, and type DELETE to confirm. This permanently removes your profile and personal data. Your ratings may remain in anonymised form so the Standings stay intact, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Yes, and it is free. Go to web-jury.com/claim and prove the account is yours in one of three ways: a post from the account itself, a line on its bio or About page, or an email address at your own domain. A person checks the proof before the claim is approved. A claimed record can answer controversies publicly and reply to the people who rated it; claiming never changes the Standing.

Yes. The standing badge shows your Standing and links to your record. It shows nothing until the record has 20 ratings.

Yes: free and key-less, with rate limits per IP address. There are no paid tiers. Every record comes with its Standing (the standing and standingBand fields) beside the raw score. Documentation at web-jury.com/developers.

Not from the store yet: the Internet Standing extension for Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Arc) is not in the Chrome Web Store yet. Everything it shows is already on the site (paste any link on the rate page), and the bookmarklet gives you a one-click check from any page in the meantime.

Not yet. Native iOS and Android apps are in development and have not been released. Until they are, the website works in any phone browser, including reading records and filing ratings.

Barely. The site installs as a Progressive Web App, and when you lose your connection it falls back to a saved copy of the home page. Reading records, rating, voting and searching all need a connection.