Trust

BetterScore configuration

The weights, the confidence curve and the recency window. Changing anything here moves every product on the platform, so every change is logged with a rationale and announced before it takes effect.

Changes here are platform-wide

A weight change recalculates every leaderboard on the next scoring pass. Run a preview first — it reports how many products would change rank and by how much, without writing anything.

Weights total

100%

Recency half-life

120 days

Evidence older than this counts for less

Last change

28d ago

Problem resolution weight 18% → 20%

Signal weights

Must sum to 100%. The published version of this table is what buyers see on the methodology page.

User satisfaction

Verified rating, recommendation rate, sentiment

Problem resolution

Resolved rate, response speed, user confirmation

Review trust

Verified users, depth, anomaly checks

Use-case fit

Primary-use votes, workflow match

Community activity

Helpful replies, Q&A, founder participation

Product momentum

Recent improvements, sentiment trend, release activity

Popularity

Follows, saves, likes, qualified profile visits

Saving schedules the change for the next scoring pass and publishes it to the methodology page.

Confidence curve

How much a product's own signals count before it has enough evidence.

Tier	Reviews in the job	Public label
Provisional	0–9	Provisional
Low	10–19	Low
Medium	20–39	Medium
High	40+	High

Recency

Half-lifeHow quickly evidence loses weight. Shorter reacts faster and is noisier.Momentum windowPeriod over which release activity and sentiment direction are measured.Minimum products for a public leaderboard

Hard invariants

Paid placement contributes zero scoreCannot be disabled. This is the product.Subscription plan contributes zero scoreCannot be disabled.Removed evidence loses historical effectA removed review's past contribution is unwound, not just hidden.Only affected users confirm resolutionsNo vendor or moderator override exists.Publish weights on the methodology pageThe public table is generated from this config.

Configuration history

Change	Detail	Actor	When
score.weights.updated	Problem resolution weight 18% → 20%	Harriet Vance	28d ago