Class_RankR

Class_RankR is an app that allows users to rate their classmates.

Behaviour

Users need to sign up to participate.<ref name="melissa-nag">“I’m apparently one of the last people who haven’t joined, which is why Melissa nagged me" - Lost for Words 1.1</ref> When they sign up, the specify their school and grade in order to join the appropriate group.<ref>Avery had her phone out, and there was a heart in a circle at the top along with the app name: Class_RankR. She’d already put in their school and grade. - Lost for Words 1.1</ref>

Each participant selects their top choice from among the other classmates, and optionally their second choice.<ref>Their class had ranked everyone, each student picking a first and possible second person they liked. - Lost for Words 1.6</ref> Participants then receive points based on the selections of other users:

3 points for selecting someone who selects them back
2 points for each person who selects them as their first choice
1 point for each person who selects them as their second choice<ref name="flyer-app">Flyer & App</ref>

Choices are kept private until the organizer requests the results.<ref>"Everything’s locked and hidden until the person who organized it asks for the tally.” - Lost for Words 1.1</ref> Results are then made available to each participant, showing the total number of mutual selections, first and second selections, and points received by each participant.<ref name="flyer-app" />

Use at Louis Riel Public School

The 8/9 class at the Kennet public school used the Class_RankR app to rate each other at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. Originally the app was being used only by the girls, but the boys also joined in.<ref>“Oh, I wanted to ask!” Avery said. “The app. She also mentioned this thing? Like all the girls in class are rating the boys or something?”

“Everyone’s rating everyone. I think all the boys joined in,” Lucy said. - Lost for Words 1.1</ref> Some students, including Melissa, were insistent on everyone participating.<ref name="melissa-nag" /> One other class at the school also participated.<ref>“There’s the other class,” Lucy said.

“Already asked, and no." - Lost for Words 1.6</ref>

The app results caused some distress among the participants who did not receive many votes, especially Lucy.<ref>That heavy, overwhelming feeling that she hadn’t seemed to be able to process all last night had come with her to school today, and it had expanded by inches over the last few minutes, until it kinda hurt constantly.

She sighed, slumping down over her desk, her arms extending forward and over the other end. Head on one arm, she looked over and murmured, “Am I ugly?” - Lost for Words 1.6</ref> Avery was also distressed to learn that she was the only lesbian person in the class.<ref>“Just me, huh?” Avery asked, quiet. [...] Her face had fallen, and to Lucy’s Sight, she had a dark watercolor stain spreading across her chest, like a growing hole. - Lost for Words 1.6</ref>

Results (Girls)

The Class_RankR results for the girls are shown in the Flyer & App extra material. The results are colour-coded as follows:

💛 - mutual like (3 points)
❤️ - first pick (2 points)
🖤 - second pick (1 point)

Rank	Student	Points	Breakdown	Notes
1	Mia Campbell-St. James	9	💛❤️❤️🖤🖤
2	Hailey McKay	7	💛❤️🖤🖤
3	Emerson Peart	5	💛🖤🖤
3	Avery Kelly	5	❤️❤️🖤
3	Sharon Maddocks	5	💛❤️
4	Kyleigh Miller	4	❤️❤️
5	Verona Hayward	3	💛	Picked by Jeremy (a mutual selection)<ref name="jeremy-mutual">“The stupid app tipped him off that I voted for him. Then we ran into each other. Now we’re talking semi-regularly and stuff.” Verona made a face, like she’d stepped in something. “Poor Jeremy,” Lucy said. “Why’d he have to pick you to like?” - Out on a Limb 3.4</ref>
6	Caroline Gray	2	❤️
6	Melissa Oakham	2	🖤🖤
6	Pamela O'Neill	2	❤️	Picked by Avery<ref>Verona watched as Avery selected Pamela O’Neill. - Lost for Words 1.1</ref>
7	Brooklyn McLeish	1	🖤
7	Alexa Duff	1	🖤
7	Alayna Weagle	1	🖤
8	Lucy Ellingson	0

With the exception of Avery's choice of Pamela, all girls were picked by boys.<ref>One girl is into girls - Flyer & App</ref>

Results (Boys)

The exact results for the boys in the class are not specified in the text. Known selections are as follows:

Amadeus Kent - Lucy's first choice<ref name="amadeus-george">“Who did you guys pick?”

“Amadeus,” Lucy said, without hesitation. “Second pick was, uh, George, I think.”- Lost for Words 1.1</ref>
George Mason - Lucy's second choice<ref name="amadeus-george"/>
Jeremy Clifford - selected by Verona<ref name="jeremy-wallace">“I picked Jeremy and Wallace, because they seem like the kind of guys who wouldn’t get votes, and I like Jeremy’s drawings, and Wallace is cool sometimes. They don’t deserve to get no votes.”</ref> (a mutual selection<ref name="jeremy-mutual" />)
Wallace Davis - selected by Verona<ref name="jeremy-wallace" />
Gabriel Necaise - received no votes<ref>She watched as he left the classroom, reaching for her phone, and flipping over to check the boys’ ranking.

Gabe was at the bottom. - Lost for Words 1.6</ref>

Two boys selected only other boys; one boy selected one boy and one girl.<ref>Three boys are into boys (Two picked only boys, one picked both a boy & a girl) - Flyer & App</ref>

Trivia

The app was not magical.<ref>It would have been a relief at this point, she felt, if the entire stupid thing was magical. Some kind of curse, or some kind of shitty stupid magic puzzle or whatever. But she didn’t see anything like that. - Lost for Words 1.6</ref><ref>Tigerquoll: And the plot thickens! Here we go.
Good call those who predicted the rating app being a Ritual.

wildbow: It’s not. - Conversation in Lost for Words 1.6</ref>

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