An honest number instead of a good feeling
The Noise Guard Score shows you at a glance how calm a page currently is and how much Noise Guard reduced. No leaderboard, no comparison with others, no artificial reward loop.
How calm this page currently is.
What the score actually shows
The value from 0 to 100 flows from signals already detected locally: ad density, toxic comments, manipulation patterns, attention pressure. Hovering over the number shows exactly which factor lowered it and by how much, no black box.
If a page's data is too thin for a reliable assessment, Noise Guard deliberately shows "–" instead of making up a number.
Why no leaderboard, no comparison?
Point systems, leaderboards, and comparisons with others are themselves an attention mechanism: they create the urge to check more often, to improve, to keep up. That's exactly what we didn't want to build into a tool that fights precisely those mechanisms.
The score is therefore deliberately just a snapshot of the current page, not a progress or competition system.
What the score isn't
The Noise Guard Score is a heuristic estimate from local signals, not a measured, objective value. Two very similar pages can show slightly different values depending on what Noise Guard actually finds in the page content at the moment of measurement.
How the number actually adds up
The score starts at 100 and deducts an individually capped amount for each detected signal, never unlimited: comment toxicity up to 20 points, aggressive comments up to 14, ragebait up to 18, ad density up to 18, manipulation patterns up to 20, attention triggers up to 16, consent pressure up to 8, social pressure up to 10. Every single deduction appears in the "Why?" tooltip, strongest influence listed first.
The word category below it (calm, mixed, heated, toxic, manipulative) follows fixed thresholds: below 30 "toxic", below 50 "heated", below 75 "mixed", otherwise "calm". One exception deliberately overrides this order: as soon as at least three independent manipulation patterns are detected on a page, Noise Guard shows "manipulative", regardless of the calculated point value, because repeated manipulation deserves its own warning on its own merits.