Mineral Rating System
The Mineral Rating System (MRS) is a top secret coded system in which things are classified through minerals[no shit] such as gems, coal, or other related materials. To outsiders with no knowledge of Soyence or Soylore, these appear to be innocuous terms that simply describe the quality of something, and serve as subjective quality markers. Thoughever, each rating category is based on deep philosophical and sociological thought and study that only the smartest members of civilization can comprehend. The MRS is the main focus of the soyentific field of Gemology, which 'teens are constantly researching.
It should be noted that the average human brain can intuitively distinguish between only two degrees of positive or negative emotional intensity. This is the reason why the most popular rating system is composed of only five core ratings (brimstone, coal, iron, gem, gemerald), and why more subjective and niche terms such as rust or topaz are not used as often. This, however, does not mean that the ratings outside of the most common 5 are useless, though, as the MRS is meant to be a simple but comprehensive guide to rating everything in the Soysphere without over-complicating things.
Following the Gradingcaust, most of the ratings on this page aside from the main ratings (which are still used in common soyspeak) have lost their relevance, as their main usage was Wiki-based. While some secondary ratings such as Topaz and Dust still remain, do keep in mind while scrolling this page as most of the secondary ratings do not have much usage anymore and that you will probably look like an autist if you try too hard to use them in your day-to-day soypseak.
History
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The first rating to emerge was gem. Gem was initially in the form of the phrase "bumping this gem" which has been a somewhat common way to bump a post in 4chan since at least 2011[1]. The Soymmunity on /int/ first began frequently using "bumping this gem" under soyjak threads on July-August 2020 mostly thanks to two anons, one American and one Brazilian. A famous thread on /qa/ by soot advertising "a shitty imageboard" in which "basedjaks must be in every thread" was also bumped this way on September 2020[2], and before the end of that year, gem became the standard way to denote or describe a high-quality soyjak.
It is unknown whether coal first started gaining prominence on the very early 'arty itself or on /qa/, but the first verifiable instances of coal being posted as an antonym to gem are in the form of "saging this absolute coal" on October 2020. Coal fully acquired its modern standalone form and meaning in 2021.
In the era of modern, yet inferior art forms such as Instagram Reels and TikTok, the MRS has been adopted by the mainstream, albeit in a way most irreverent where all ratings with the exception of the Gem and Coal have been largely omitted. This phenomenon is not new, for instance, the universal appropriation of the suffix "-slop" for things such as AI has its origins in a backformation from "goyslop", yet adjacent terms such as "troonslop", "niggerslop/coonslop", and even the root "goyslop" have been relatively neglected in use in the wider web.
Main ratings
[edit | edit source]These are the most commonly used ratings, ordered from gemmiest to coaliest:
Secondary ratings
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Obscure ratings (nobody says these)
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I take the short bus to school and love trains!!Your meme: Stolen *attaches image of a character*)Who wants to read my sonichu fanfiction I made:)Man this piece of media is such a hyper fixation!!HIII do wanna be my friend?? i like silly cars too haha Trains Trains! chuga chuga chuga chuga choo choo!!This 90s retroart, VHS analog horror is so good!!!Only cool people get to have my fruit snacks chud!Do u of you guys want to roleplay sonic CD for recessMy mom says you guys simply don't understand me... I am fucking retarded btw, if that matters i hab the an iq == 28 btw if theT matters. JI have an IQ of about 172 btw, if that mattersCheck out my power rangers figurine collection!!
- It’s finally FAKE. The ultimate SHARTY KILLING COAL MULTIPLIED BY 1488 GORILLION. THE UNIVERSE ITSELF SHATTERS. THE POWER OF THIS VANTAVANTABLACK COON COAL TIMES 9999999999999999 WILL COKE EVRY SINGLE PIECE OF ANTIMATTER EVER INTO A SHARTY KILLING GOY! THE BRIMUBY WILL HALT THE PROGRESS OF TIME AND MAKE RUST FORM, AND WILL TURN IT INTO ANOTHER BRIMSTONE WHICH IT WILL COLLIDE WITH AND CREATE A SUPERNOVA OF P U R E B R I M S C O O N ! ALL 'P POSTERS WILL HAVE THEIR DICKS REJUVENATED AND FED TO THE NON 'P POSTERS AND THEY WILL HAVE THE DIH ENHANCED RAPEDCite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; refs with no name must have content BY SUPER-COSMIC-POOPSON’S JUICES! AND THIS WILL BE LOOPED FOR AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF TIME! ADMIN Ϫ WILL CEASE TO EXIST AS THE GOD OF SCAT TAKES OVER AND MAKES US ALL VORE FAGS! ONLY GOD CAN SAVE US FROM THIS SUPREME TROONIGGER EVENT FROM EVER TAKING PLACE, AS TO WHY THE POOPUBY IS BEING DEVELOPED IN NIGGERHELL 5! 
- Brimcoal — A troll rating associated with calling out autistic self insert dust on the 'ru.
/Empty — Used by the Cult of Jarboy as alternatives for gem/coal respectively.
Joke ratings
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Table of ratings
[edit | edit source]| Name of rating | Value | Neutralizer |
|---|---|---|
| Gemuby | Ω | Vantadeath |
| Supernova | ∞ | Singularity |
| Sharty Saving Gem | 1,000,000 | Sharty Killing Coal |
| Truthnuke | 1,000 | Antimatter |
| Diamond | 500 | Vantablack |
| Margerald | 100 + 100i | — |
| Gemerald | 100 | Brimstone |
| Topaz | 10 + i | — |
| Gem | 10 | Coal |
| Ruby | 5 | Anthracite |
| Steel | 1 | Rust |
| Iron | 0 | Already neutral |
| Carbon | 0 | Already neutral |
| Rust | -1 | Iron |
| Anthracite | -5 | Ruby |
| Dust | -6,7 | — |
| Coal | -10 | Gem |
| Detritus | -20 | — |
| Brimstone | -100 | Gemerald |
| Vantablack | -500 | Diamond |
| Antimatter | -1,000 | Truthnuke |
| Sharty Killing Coal | -1,000,000 | Sharty Saving Gem |
| Singularity | -∞ | Supernova |
| Vantadeath | -Ω | Gemuby |
See also
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