Thirty days of actual connection checks. A new server starts near the middle and earns confidence instead of jumping on one good ping.
Votes get a say. They do not get the final say.
TrueRank looks for evidence that a project is alive, reliable, trusted, and useful. A vote can help, but votes are capped at 5 points out of 100. Premium placement adds zero.
Game servers need more than a loud voting campaign.
Consistency matters far more than raw population, and the score ramps up only after enough player samples exist.
Approved reviews and vouches, weighted toward recent evidence.
Recent votes help a little and level off quickly. They cannot carry a weak server.
Enough detail, working links, a usable endpoint, and project artwork.
An active Botted server tag removes all player-activity credit and subtracts another 15 points. Expired or removed tags stop affecting the score.
Discords are not pretend game servers.
Fresh listing work and recent approved community participation.
Moderated reviews and vouches carry the most weight here.
The same small, capped vote signal used everywhere else.
Clear details, useful links, and enough information to know what the community is for.
Services get judged like services.
Measured availability when the service provides a safe, monitorable endpoint.
Recent maintenance and approved community evidence show the project is still looked after.
Recent approved reviews and vouches.
Useful as one signal, never the main event.
Working links, a clear explanation, useful access details, and recognizable artwork.
The parts that do not bend.
A Minecraft server competes with Minecraft servers. Discords and services have their own homepage sections and their own evidence profiles.
Featured placement is labeled and displayed separately. Buying it cannot move a TrueRank position.
TSS does not invent player counts, uptime, reviews, or activity. New and thinly measured listings are marked provisional in the stored breakdown.
Each day’s score and rank are saved, so a change can be traced instead of quietly rewriting the past.