SO is much less objective than chess: people tend to upvote what others upvoted just because they see it first, they see how many votes there already were, etc.

SO is much less objective than chess: people tend to upvote what others upvoted just because they see it first, they see how many votes there already were, etc. Your rank there is not worth paying very much attention to, though there is some useful signal to improve your writing with. (It lists me at around 9000th for Elo and 8000th for votes, so yeah, I peeked.)