Most lists count clicks.
We count quality.
True Rank is a composite scoring system built to surface the best Minecraft communities — not the ones with the most bots, the deepest pockets, or the luckiest vote spike.
The Formula
What Each Component Measures
Vouches are cast through the TMS Discord Bot by real players who have actually played on a server. Because they require Discord authentication, they're significantly harder to fake than web votes — and they signal something a vote never can: a genuine community recommendation.
Vouches apply a 28-day linear time decay. A vouch cast today is worth full value. One from 28 days ago contributes nothing. Your rank reflects your current community health, not a campaign from months ago.
Written reviews with star ratings on your listing. The score uses a weighted average factoring both rating quality and recency. Like vouches, reviews decay over 28 days.
Measured live via TMS Telemetry. We track consistent availability over time — frequent downtime tanks your score fast, and it doesn't recover instantly when you come back online.
Servers that pass our Pay-to-Win review receive a permanent score multiplier. This is the only component that doesn't decay — once earned, it applies indefinitely while you maintain compliance.
Losing your Non-P2W badge removes this multiplier immediately. We audit servers periodically and act on community reports.
Votes have the lowest weight but still serve as a tiebreaker. We apply logarithmic normalization — the gap between 100 and 1,000 votes matters far more than the gap between 5,000 and 50,000.
A server with 50,000 votes and zero vouches will still rank below a mid-sized server with strong community engagement. Votes alone cannot win.
Time Decay
Your rank reflects your server today
Reviews and vouches apply a 28-day linear decay. Full value today, 50% at 14 days, zero at 28 days. This rewards consistent community activity — not one-time campaigns.
Anti-Hype Dampener
Rapid spikes in a single metric — like votes — without corresponding growth in vouches, uptime, or reviews are flagged. This prevents flash vote campaigns from knocking established communities off the front page overnight.
Want the full technical breakdown?
Exact score calculations, worked examples, the decay formula, and step-by-step advice for improving each component of your TrueRank score.