Definition
For this product, “slop” means content a voter perceives as generic, repetitive, mass-produced, context-poor or offering little meaningful original contribution. AI assistance alone does not make something slop.
What gets rated
Votes apply to one public page or YouTube video—not a person, creator, channel or whole domain. Equivalent YouTube links become one video identity. Generic web links have fragments and known tracking parameters removed; private, credentialed and likely token-bearing URLs are refused.
One mutable vote
Each pseudonymous installation has at most one active vote per content item. The voter can switch sides, change reasons or retract. Current eligible votes—not a lifetime accusation counter—form the aggregate.
Display thresholds
- 0–4 eligible ratings: “Not enough ratings.” No aggregate is revealed.
- 5–19: an early count such as “8 of 12 rated this as slop.” Sharing remains disabled.
- 20 or more plus sufficient effective evidence: the weighted percentage may be published, rounded to the nearest five. A cohort made only of new installations needs substantially more than 20 ratings.
- Unusual activity: publication freezes while the rating cohort is reviewed.
Weighting
A new installation begins at 0.25 weight. After at least seven days and five eligible ratings, future votes can carry normal weight. Publication requires the equivalent of 20 normal-weight ratings as well as 20 raw ratings. Majority agreement is not used to reward reporters; doing so would entrench early brigades and punish legitimate dissent. Exact fraud thresholds stay private so they are harder to game.
Reasons
Slop voters may optionally choose fixed reasons: generic or templated, repetitive or mass-produced, little original value, synthetic-sounding audio, synthetic-looking visuals, clickbait or context-poor presentation, and other. There is no free-text label attached to content. Reason percentages appear only on a published score after at least ten eligible slop ratings, and an individual reason needs at least three selections. Multiple choices mean percentages may total over 100%.
Sampling limits
Ratings come from people who deliberately choose to participate, so they are not a representative poll of everyone who viewed the content. Balanced slop and not-slop actions are offered in the popup, context menu and optional YouTube controls, but self-selection and sharing can still shape the cohort. Read the score as a bounded community signal, not a universal verdict.
Interpretation
Community Slop Score: 80/100. Based on eligible community ratings. This reflects opinion about perceived content quality. It does not determine whether AI was used, whether claims are true, who created it or whether any rule was broken.
Corrections and versions
Wrong matches, suspected manipulation, privacy and legal issues can be submitted through Request a review. Moderators can freeze, hide, block or restore a score with an audit reason. Material changes to normalization, eligibility or scoring will increment this methodology version and be dated here.