About

A board for silly ideas, ranked properly

One question, asked over and over: of these two challenge ideas, which would you rather do? Every answer is a head-to-head result, and the ranking is nothing but the sum of those results.

What it is

A ranking engine pointed at something harmless

The unit: A vote. Two ideas, one pick. Both ratings move immediately, and the amount they move depends on which was expected to win.
The ranking: Elo, the same maths chess ratings use. Nothing is featured, promoted or ordered by hand. A challenge sits where the votes put it.
The pool: Curated in the literal sense: seeded by the operator, with no public write path. Every idea on the board was put there deliberately; none arrived on its own.
The cost: Nothing. No account, no sign-up, no profile, no email required to vote.

Deliberately missing

The parts of the format we did not build

The name comes from a viral trend that hurt people. Keeping the social shape while removing the harm meant leaving specific things out, and they are worth naming.

The drink
No alcohol anywhere in the pool, and no route by which one could be added.
The clock
No 24-hour deadline. Nothing counts down and nothing expires.
The dare
No escalation, no one-upping, no forfeit for declining.
The audience
No public list of who took part, who was nominated, or who said no.

Where it stands

What is running and what is not

Rather than describe a finished product, here is the honest state of the thing you are looking at.

Running: Voting, the Elo ranking, the board, and the result log. Those are live and the numbers on them are real.
Not built: Nomination links and their counters, an in-site suggestion queue, embedded attempt clips, and a newsletter. None of that exists yet, and no page here pretends otherwise.
Counters: Every number on this site is read from its own database at the moment you load the page. If the pool has not been seeded, they read zero — which is the truth, not a bug.

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A board for silly ideas, ranked properly

A ranking engine pointed at something harmless

The parts of the format we did not build

The drink

The clock

The dare

The audience

What is running and what is not

A board for silly ideas, ranked properly

A ranking engine pointed at something harmless

The parts of the format we did not build

The drink

The clock

The dare

The audience

What is running and what is not