there's a number of factors that goes into the rankings, like taking into account which other community note users rated it helpful and how they rated previous notes.
also simple usage of community notes would have revealed it was at least more sophisticated than the prison of two ideas you presented.
No need to be so dramatic. Looks like it’s in fact 100% community based, just the community is separate (the ‘community notes community’). The higher barrier to entry, compared to Twitter’s mainstream audience, is its saving grace (at least for now, as more time passes this seems susceptible to good old astroturphing, gaming, and eventually good faith contributors rage-quitting).
you can see the source code of the algorithm here: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes
there's a number of factors that goes into the rankings, like taking into account which other community note users rated it helpful and how they rated previous notes.
also simple usage of community notes would have revealed it was at least more sophisticated than the prison of two ideas you presented.