How Existenz V4 Works
This page explains how trust levels, roles, main feed ranking, and subfeeds work in the current platform logic.
Trust Levels
Hidden reputation is calculated from these signals:
discovery x 1.6 + contribution x 1.35 + interaction x 0.85 + moderation x 0.55 + legacyContribution x 0.35 + security x 0.4
The score is then mapped to a trust level threshold. Higher trust generally comes from sustained quality contributions, useful interactions, and healthy account behavior over time.
| Level | Minimum Hidden Reputation |
|---|---|
| Newcomer | 0 |
| Regular | 40 |
| Recognized | 120 |
| Trusted | 280 |
| Veteran | 520 |
| Curator | 900 |
| Pillar | 1400 |
| Legend | 2100 |
Roles
Default account role with normal posting, voting, commenting, and bookmarking access.
How to achieve: Created automatically when you sign up.
Intended for users trusted to contribute media-focused content and uploads.
How to achieve: Granted manually by an Admin in the user roles settings.
Can moderate content workflows and is treated as trusted in community scoring and moderation logic.
How to achieve: Granted manually by an Admin based on trust, consistency, and behavior.
Editorial role with elevated oversight, included in community moderation privileges.
How to achieve: Granted manually by an Admin.
Full administrative permissions, including role management and user administration.
How to achieve: Granted manually by an existing Admin.
Main Feed and Ranking
The home feed shows links filtered by:
- Published status
- Not removed by moderation
- Your NSFW preference (if NSFW is off, NSFW links are filtered out)
Links are ordered by descending ranking score.
Major positive factors include:
- Freshness (newer links get a stronger boost)
- Engagement velocity (interactions per hour)
- Unique commenters and trusted interactions
- Discovery momentum from click activity
Major negative factors include:
- Spam probability signals
- Ragebait probability signals
- Age decay over time
In practice, links change rank when people vote, comment, click through, or when the link simply gets older and its freshness advantage decays.
SubFeeds
- Any logged-in user can create a subfeed.
- The creator is automatically added as both moderator and member.
- Users can join or leave subfeeds from subfeed pages.
- Posting to a subfeed requires membership (or moderator/editor/admin privileges).
- Inside each subfeed, links and posts are ranked by the same ranking score logic as the broader feeds.