I see the rankings now, although I hadn’t previously noticed them when I made the post. I must’ve looked right past them!

Looks like we’re calculating the WoT score using similar methods. Our rankings are almost exactly the same order! I’d say this is the most useful method available right now, although it’s still a bit of a popularity contest. What if the best author is someone who’s recognized as high quality, but has a low follower count? Our WoT score method does not know how to boost a person like that!

So my short term plan is going to be to experiment with some alternate scoring systems that will boost author scores based on contextual data. There are various ways to do that, and the challenge is making it sophisticated enough to add value but not too complicated for devs to implement or users to use.