Just fyi the checkmarks are to illustrate the number of paying subscribers (hollow orange for hundreds; solid orange for thousands; blue for tens of thousands), so they’re less a social credit system as on X and Facebook, but more a signal to readers that this or that publication has managed to attract a given number of paying subs. Obviously I have one, so you may think me biased, but it’s nice to have a system which automatically shows new subs that your work is of sufficient quality to merit paying for. Keeps the flywheel spinning.