AO3 TrueRank (oifgcehnomgkhcnmlccpbkdbamggbblo): Adds a new non-searchable metric to AO3 works, describing their Kudos/Hits ratio.... Read More > or Download Now >
AO3 TrueRank for Chrome
Tech Specs
- • Type: Browser Extension
- • Latest Version: 1.1
- • Price: Freeware
- • Offline: No
- • Developer: hujgup
User Reviews
- • Rating Average
- 3.38 out of 5
- • Rating Users
- 8
Download Count
- • Total Downloads
- 12
- • Current Version Downloads
- 12
- • Updated: May 10, 2016
AO3 TrueRank is a free Search Tools Extension for Chrome. You could download the latest version crx file and install it.
More About AO3 TrueRank
So what is to be done? How can one, at a glance, determine the overall quality of a work?
Enter TrueRank. This extension takes the number of kudos a work has, divides it by the number of hits it has, and displays the resulting value as a percentage. For example, a work with 12 kudos and 96 hits will have a TrueRank of 12.5, because 12/96 = 1/8 = 0.125. This metric is better than any of the ones listed above because it doesn't give preference to popular works (excluding works with < ~10 hits), nor does it prefer multi-chapter works (each user can only leave 1 kudos, and hits are recorded per unique visitor). It's not perfect by any means, but it's a lot better than the tools we have now.
Unfortunately, due to the way AO3's search works, you cannot sort an entire body of works by their TrueRank, so for sorting purposes you're stuck with one of the built-in options. But this will very quickly let you know whether a work is (in general) going to be work your time to click on.
(Note: The red boxes in the screenshots are for highlighting purposes and do not appear during actual use.)