How We Rate

Every rating on this site comes from the same simple act: a listener hears a track and votes SLAP (it's good) or SLOP (it's not). One vote per person per track. This page explains how those votes become percentages, leaderboards, and the Hall of Slop — and what we do to keep it honest.

What a rating means

A track's verdict is the share of its voters who said SLAP. 80% means 8 in 10 listeners who voted on that exact track liked it. Votes are anonymous, and you can only vote once per track — coming back and smashing the button again doesn't count twice.

Why the charts aren't sorted by percentage

Raw percentages mislead when sample sizes differ. A track that went 5 for 5 has a perfect 100% — but five votes is barely a signal, and it shouldn't outrank a track that earned 90% across a thousand votes.

So leaderboards rank by the Wilson score lower bound: a statistical estimate of the worst a track's true approval is likely to be, given how many votes it has. With few votes the uncertainty is wide and the score stays conservative; as votes accumulate, the score converges on the real percentage. In practice this rewards tracks that are both well-liked and well-sampled.

On top of that, the all-time charts require at least 10 votes before a track is eligible — nothing reaches a leaderboard on a handful of opinions.

The Hall of Slop is not the slap chart reversed

The Hall of Slop runs the same Wilson math with SLOP as the success case. That distinction matters: it lists tracks the crowd confidently dislikes, not merely tracks that haven't proven themselves yet. A new track with two votes can't land in the Hall of Slop just for being unlucky early.

Fairness and anti-gaming

One vote per person per track, enforced by an anonymous session — revisiting a track shows you your existing vote instead of accepting a new one.
Rate limits cap how fast any one session can vote, which blunts scripted vote floods.
New-track exposure is balanced by the queue, so fresh submissions get in front of voters instead of drowning under established tracks.
Abuse signals (like bursts of coordinated voting) are logged for review using anonymized data — see the Privacy Policy.

Editorial independence

The numbers are the crowd's and we don't touch them: no track is boosted, penalized, or removed from a chart for editorial reasons. The commentary on the blog is the editor's opinion, clearly separated from the data it discusses. Advertising never influences either.

Corrections

If we get something wrong — a mislabeled genre, a broken embed, a factual error in a post — tell us. We fix errors promptly, and material corrections to published posts are noted in the post itself.