The Curator Leaderboard
Top registered players and curious visitors — browsing, playing, and learning all move the board.
User IDs are masked for privacy — in both partial previews and full views — whenever anyone views the leaderboard. Sign in to see the full board.
How The Curator leaderboard is scored
What earns points
Points follow finished thinking. A conversation scores when it reaches a conclusion rather than per message, so a long, meandering thread is worth the same as a tight one that arrives somewhere. Finishing an article, completing a quiz on material you have read, and working through the walkthrough each award a fixed amount, once.
Quizzes are re-scored on the server against the stored answers, so what the board records is what the server verified, not what a browser reported.
Why ranks move slowly
Totals are cumulative, never reset, and carry no streak multiplier. Steady reading beats a burst of activity, which is deliberate: the board is meant to track curiosity that lasts, not attendance.
Identical totals are ranked by who got there first. No score is edited by hand — a faulty rule is fixed in the rule and all affected totals recomputed at once.
Privacy on the board
All other participants appear as masked handles, to signed-in readers and administrators alike. You can see where you stand without anyone else's account being put on display.
The board is not shared with advertisers and is not used to build profiles. Request deletion in your account and the leaderboard record goes with everything else.
What the ranking actually measures
Learning, not usage
Experience comes from finishing tracks, passing knowledge checks, filing accepted corrections and returning across separate days. Message volume earns nothing, because rewarding volume would only teach people to type more.
What remains is a rough ranking of who has worked through the material — the only thing here worth competing on.
Why it cannot be farmed
Scores are recomputed on the server from the underlying activity rather than trusted from the browser. Replaying a passed quiz adds nothing, and a correction later reversed removes the points it earned.
Streaks count distinct days rather than sessions, so splitting an evening into six visits gains nothing.
Privacy on the board
Only a display name and totals are public — never account emails, collections or session contents. Leaving the display name unset keeps you off the board entirely.
No editorial content is gated behind participation; the board is an incentive, not a wall.