The Community Ranking Index shows how strongly a guild is publicly evidenced and discussed. It is a resonance and source score, not a measurement of DPS, raid performance or official in-game strength.
In alpha, Tromele works with publicly findable community sources. Every score should remain traceable: what counts is what is evidenced, not what would sound impressive.
The CRI combines presence with a cautious sentiment factor. More sources help, but the tenth mention does not count as strongly as the second.
CRI = presence × sentiment factor × 100
More independent mentions raise the value. The effect is logarithmically dampened so raw volume does not dominate everything.
Several source types are stronger than many hits from the same corner. Around three types fills this part.
Warcraft Logs, Blizzard, Wowhead, wikis, forums, Reddit and other types have broad quality weights.
AI helps classify findings: whether a result really belongs to a guild, which realm is named, what source type it is and whether the tone is clearly positive or negative. AI does not rate whether a guild plays well.
If no source carries clear sentiment, the factor stays 1. The score then rests purely on evidence and diversity.
Positive tone can lift the presence value, negative tone can lower it. Visibility is not automatically a recommendation.
The ranking table shows the found sources for each guild, so the basis can be checked directly.
The raw CRI is absolute. For the visible leaderboard it is scaled per game so data-poor games do not look broken: the currently strongest guild in a game lands around 95, the others proportionally below it.
Important: CRI 90 in WoW Midnight is therefore not automatically the same as CRI 90 in WoW Classic. It means: very strong within that game field.
If an entry is wrong, outdated or assigned to the wrong guild, the guild can dispute it. Most helpful are the guild name, realm, affected link and a short explanation of what should be corrected.
Tromele does not change scores on request alone. Corrections are handled through source evidence, assignment and traceable data.