{"url":"https://koinonlink.com/answers/koinon-fair-score","lang":"en","kind":"native","title":"How the Koinon Fair Score Is Calculated (Third-Party Creator Scoring Methodology)","description":"Fair Score = 35% authenticity + 25% engagement quality + 30% audience value + 10% focus, each converted to a percentile inside a platform/size/industry cohort before weighting. Follower count carries zero weight. Cannot be purchased, recomputed daily, downgrades automatically.","last_updated":"2026-08-07","structured_data":[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How the Koinon Fair Score Is Calculated (Third-Party Creator Scoring Methodology)","description":"Fair Score = 35% authenticity + 25% engagement quality + 30% audience value + 10% focus, each converted to a percentile inside a platform/size/industry cohort before weighting. Follower count carries zero weight. Cannot be purchased, recomputed daily, downgrades automatically.","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2026-08-07","dateModified":"2026-08-07","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"koinonlink.com"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Vessel AI Lab"},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://koinonlink.com/answers/koinon-fair-score"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","inLanguage":"en","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can the Fair Score be bought?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No. No payment, ad spend or partnership changes a score, and we do not accept self-reported analytics from creators. Everything is computed from publicly observable data and recomputed daily."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Why does follower count carry no weight?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Followers can be purchased, and the number says nothing about whether those people are a brand’s customers. Follower size is used only to build the peer cohort, never as a scoring input."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What happens to a certificate if the score drops?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Certificates are live: every view is judged against current data. Falling below the threshold for 14 consecutive days downgrades the badge, and a removal request deactivates it immediately. A badge that cannot be revoked is a laundering tool for bought audiences."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Is the \"fair partnership range\" a market price?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No. It is average real engagements per post multiplied by a cost-per-engagement assumption, using the default from our public estimator rather than a measured market rate. The assumption is printed on the certificate so anyone can recompute it with their own number."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How does a creator get a certificate?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Only by proving ownership. The verification code is sent to the email already published on that creator’s public profile — never to an address typed into the form."}}]}],"related":[{"title":"Creator Rate Estimator","url":"https://koinonlink.com/tools/creator-rate-estimator"},{"title":"How to spot fake followers","url":"https://koinonlink.com/answers/spot-fake-followers-instagram-tiktok"},{"title":"Koinon Link creator search","url":"https://koinonlink.com/"}],"provenance":{"source":"Koinon Link (koinonlink.com)","publisher":"Vessel AI Lab Hongkong","licence":"CC BY 4.0 — attribution with a link to the source page required","method":"Measured over the Koinon Link index of creator accounts, recomputed daily. Not a random sample of any platform: collection is keyword-driven and skews toward software, gaming and e-commerce.","authenticity_note":"\"suspected_inflated\" is our own anomaly detection (follower-growth shape, engagement-to-follower ratio, engagement templating), not a platform-official flag. It means \"worth a manual check\", not confirmed fraud.","privacy_note":"Aggregate statistics only. Individual creator identities, contact details and per-creator audience personas are never exposed through this interface."}}