What a real listing looks like
A listing that is actually maintained rather than scraped tends to share a few
traits regardless of which directory it's on: it names how it was built (creator
submission, not automated collection), it states what happens if a creator asks to
be removed, and it doesn't reorder itself based on who paid for placement. None of
that guarantees quality, but the absence of all three is close to a guarantee of the
opposite — a page with no stated sourcing method and no removal process has no
mechanism to ever become accurate again once it goes stale, and most of them go
stale within weeks because the underlying accounts move, rebrand, or shut down far
faster than a static listicle gets updated.
Posting cadence is a second, simpler signal once you've found a candidate account:
an active creator posts on a rhythm, even a loose one, while a dead or abandoned
profile that's still being linked from old lists usually has a long gap since the
last update. That single check filters out a large share of what circulates on
recycled "top" pages without needing anything else.
Those two checks — is the link still live, is she still posting — are what ModestRank
automates on this directory so you don't have to run them by hand. Listings are scored
weekly on activity, on how visitors actually respond to them, and on how current the
entry itself is, and a listing whose destination keeps failing is pulled off the site
rather than left to rot. The weights and the cycle are published in full on our ranking
methodology page.