Rules
The whole system is one sentence: rank is money. Everything below is a consequence of that.
Getting on the board
- Anyone can list. No account, no approval queue, no application.
- You submit a name and a link. The link is the thing people click: your profile, your site, your page.
- The minimum first bid is $2. There is no maximum other than a $50000 cap on any single transaction.
- Bids are whole US dollars. No cents, ever.
- A listing appears only after its first payment settles. Abandoning checkout leaves no trace.
How rank is decided
- Your score is the sum of every bid you have ever made on that listing. Nothing else feeds into it: not clicks, not age, not who you are.
- The board sorts by score, highest first. That's the entire algorithm.
- Ties go to whoever got there first. You cannot match your way past someone. You have to clear them by at least $1.
- Bidding again on a listing you already own adds to the total. You never re-pay what you have already spent. To pass the leader you only cover the difference.
- The minimum top-up on an existing listing is $1.
Takeovers
- Paying 5× the current #1 total pins your listing to the top for 3 hours, no matter what anyone else pays during that window.
- The price is calculated at checkout against the live #1, so a stale number on your screen can never buy a cheap pin.
- The full takeover amount is also added to your running total, so when the pin lapses you keep every dollar of it.
- Buying a takeover while one is already live extends the pin rather than shortening it.
Money
- Bids are final and non-refundable. Getting passed is the product working, not a fault.
- Your listing is permanent. Losing #1 costs you the position, never the listing or the score.
- Prices only ratchet upward, because no bid ever expires or decays.
- We charge in US dollars. Whatever gateway we settle on becomes merchant of record for tax purposes.
What we reject
- Link shorteners and redirect services. The destination has to be visible.
- Direct chat deeplinks (WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Discord invites). Send people to a page, not into a DM.
- Raw IP addresses and non-http links.
- Tracking parameters, which are stripped automatically. Your link still works; it just stops carrying someone else's attribution.
- The same destination listed twice on one board. Bid on the existing listing instead.
- Anyone under 18, anyone listing a link they don't control, and any avatar that isn't safe for work. Explicit material belongs on your page, not on ours.
Removal
- We'll remove a listing for illegal content, non-consensual material, impersonation, or anything involving a minor, immediately and without refund.
- If your link is removed for one of those reasons, the money stays spent. Don't test this.
- Everything else stays up. We are not a taste committee, and paying more does not buy moderation leverage.
Your listing
- On submission you get a private manage link. It is the only key to your listing and we store just a hash of it. Lose it and we genuinely cannot recover it.
- You can edit your name, tagline, avatar, tags and destination whenever you like. None of that moves your rank.
- Click counts are measured on our outbound redirect, so the number shown is people we actually sent you.
Payments are currently simulated while we pick a gateway. Nothing is charged and the board is a sandbox until that changes.
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