Detective Ranking: Who Calls True or Fake Right
Every verdict you cast is a guess about a story you cannot verify. This page keeps score of those guesses. A case counts only once enough readers have voted and the True/Fake split has stopped being a coin toss; until then it stays out of everyone's numbers. Nobody here has an account, a profile or a name we know: a detective is a number your own browser invented, plus a nickname if the reader asked for one.
Your own record
Nobody has enough decided cases yet. Come back once the juries have had time to make up their minds.
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Anyone can have an opinion. Not everyone has a record.
Voting True or Fake on a story you did not witness is easy, and it costs nothing — which is exactly why a running score is interesting. This page keeps one. Every time you read a case and pick a side, that choice is quietly filed away; later, when enough other readers have voted and the split has stopped looking like a coin toss, we check whether you were with the room or against it. Cases the jury never settles are simply left out of everyone's numbers, in both directions. "Not sure" is never counted either — it is an honest answer, not a wrong one.
Being right here does not mean being right about the world. The jury is a few thousand strangers on the internet, and a jury can be wrong about a true story just as easily as it can be fooled by a good invention. A high score means you read the same signals most careful readers read: the detail that is too specific to invent, the timeline that does not quite close, the narrator who explains too much. Take the ranking in that spirit and it is a genuinely useful mirror. Take it as proof of what really happened and you have missed the joke.
How a detective stays anonymous
Nobody on this list has an account. The first time you cast a verdict, your own browser invents a random id and keeps it locally; the number you see beside a name is derived from that id and from nothing else. There is no e-mail, no password, no profile page and no way for us to connect a row on this page to a person. A reader who wants a name instead of a number can claim a nickname, which a moderator reads first — advertising and obscenity do not make it through, and that is the only thing being checked. Clear your browser storage and the whole record disappears with it, which is precisely how it should work.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "accuracy" mean on this page?
It is how often your True or Fake verdict matched the majority on cases the jury has actually settled. A case only counts once enough readers have voted and the split has moved clearly away from fifty-fifty. Everything still in dispute is left out of the numbers entirely.
Do "Not sure" votes hurt my score?
No. They are ignored completely — not counted as right and not counted as wrong. Saying you cannot tell is a legitimate answer to most of the stories on this site, and it should not cost you anything.
Why am I not in the ranking?
You need a certain number of decided cases before you appear, and cases the jury is still arguing about do not count toward that. Keep voting, and give the juries time to make up their minds.
Do I need an account?
No, and there is no way to make one for this. Your browser generated a random id the first time you voted, and that id is all we have. No e-mail, no password, no profile.
Can I get a name instead of a number?
Yes, if you want one. Pick a nickname on the nickname page and a moderator or an administrator will look at it before it is shown anywhere. We only check for advertising and for obscene or hateful content. Until it is approved you keep showing up as your number.
How do I get a nickname removed?
Write to the site administrator and say which nickname. An administrator or a moderator can remove any nickname on the site, including your own.
I cleared my browser data and my record is gone. Can you restore it?
No, and that is not a bug. The id lived in your browser and nowhere else, so there is nothing on our side to restore it from. A fresh id starts a fresh record.
Does a high score mean those stories were really true?
It means you tend to read a case the way most careful readers read it. The jury is a crowd of strangers, and a crowd can be wrong in both directions. Treat the ranking as a game of reading people, not as a ruling on what happened.