Voting

TheTop100.net is all about 'collaborative assessment': lots of people working together and giving their views and comparisons on anything and everything.

The Top 100 ranking analyser gathers this collective opinion and uses it to order items in lists. There are three ways in which you can record your views and thereby influence an item's position: Votes, Ratings and Reviews. In this post, we're going to talk about Voting and associated 'Stances'...

Votes & Stances

The quickest and simplest way to register your view is to use the Voting Buttons that are displayed next to each item in a list. When you vote on an item, this establishes your 'Stance' - that is, your view on whether you think the item should move.

If you think an item is too low in the list, relative to its neighbours, click the Up arrow on the voting buttons to give it a positive influence.

If you think an item is too high in the list, click the Down arrow to give it a negative nudge.

Finally, if you think an item is fairly ranked as it is, you can click the 'Remain' button to indicate that it should hold its position.

(if you have voted accidentally you can clear your stance by clicking the small 'X' to the left of the buttons)

Your stance is saved automatically, so you'll be able to see instantly which items you have voted on in a list whenever you return.


While you can vote any number of times on an item, you only ever have one stance (even if you have a number of 'aliases'), and it is only your stance that influences an item's ranking. Clicking repeatedly will have no effect other than to refresh a stance.

>> View a quick video demo on voting!