The Rules

Rank is the total. A listing's total is the money paid to put it there. The leaderboard sorts by it, highest first — nothing else moves rank: not clicks, not verification, not how many people paid.

Take any rank. From $5, in $5 steps. For yourself, for your rival, for your favourite. No account needed.

One $5 step can pass more than one total. The preview states the rank you will land, before you pay.

Ties go to the older listing. Passing costs the smallest $5 step that puts your total above theirs. Matching exactly is a tie, and a tie goes to the older listing: later money can pass an older one, never make one older. Taking #1 costs the leader's total plus $5.

Ten slots, then ten more. The leaderboard opens with ten. Ranks #11 to #20 are sealed until those ten fill, and open when they do — the slots are finite, and there are not twenty of them yet.

#2 opens at $200, #3 at $150. While those two are empty they are held back, and anything below is listed from #4 down. It is an ordering rule, not a barrier — no amount is ever turned away.

Once a medal is held the hold-back ends: #1 has no opening price of its own — it costs the leader's total plus $5, exactly as it always has.

The week. The leaderboard runs Wednesday to Wednesday and settles at 11:00 New York — 16:00 London. This week's money decides this week's crowns; the all-time leaderboard never resets.

The bell. At settlement the leaderboard freezes and two crowns are struck: CHAMPION at #1 when the bell rings, and MOMENTUM, the biggest climb of the week. The settled week is archived, week totals reset and the head starts land — all in the same instant, with no gap. The close is hard: no extensions.

The head start. Every week starts a fresh weekly leaderboard: a listing appears only when someone pays for it again.

The closing top three are the exception: they start the new week already listed, at $15, $10 and $5 — the only money on the leaderboard nobody paid. Week totals only: it buys no protection, and cannot be withdrawn, transferred or refunded.

Under threat. A rank is under threat when the listing below it can take it with one $5 payment — level with it, or $5 back and older; anything further back costs $10 or more. The leaderboard shows it, and #1 is under threat only when #2 is level.

Exit liquidity. The leaderboard publishes one money figure and it means one thing: money that was paid. The stophunt.lol listing is not counted — nobody paid for it, so it is not liquidity anyone could exit into. Head starts sit outside for the same reason.

stophunt.lol starts at #1, and it is there to be taken. The listing sits at $250 on the all-time leaderboard and $0 on the week. Set once, never defended, and exempt from both crowns and the head start.

The first listing ever to take all-time #1 off stophunt.lol enters the file as TOOK #1 OFF STOPHUNT.LOL — once, ever. It is a filed fact, not a payment: no money is attached to it. A reversed payment un-writes it and passes it to the next listing to take #1.

Your handle, your links. Anyone can list anyone, and anyone can take any rank — no permission needed. But links only change when the handle's owner asks: one message to the clerk from that handle is the proof. Until then a listing shows what's already public.

Links are placement, not endorsement. A listing's URL renders as its domain, so you can see where it goes before you go. Every outbound link is marked as sponsored in the page's code — paid placement, labelled as paid placement.

Links are subject to the content policy below, exactly like handles.

What is not allowed. A listing carries a handle, a link and a short message. These take one off the leaderboard:

• Explicit or pornographic content, and links to it.
• Anything illegal where it is read.
• Malware, phishing, and URLs built to defraud whoever clicks them.
• Doxxing, harassment, and listings aimed at a private individual.
• Deceptive impersonation. Listing a real person is allowed — anyone can list anyone. Saying you are them is not, and neither is a listing built to make the room believe it is theirs.
• Hate content: slurs, and attacks on people for who they are.
• Performance figures, returns, guarantees, or asking anyone for money. The leaderboard reports what was paid to it and nothing about anyone's trading; a listing does not get to do otherwise.

The clerk delists a listing that breaks this, without notice. Delisting voids the total, and everyone who paid into it receives leaderboard credit of equal value for another listing. Nobody buys a rank this way and keeps it; nobody who paid is left holding nothing.

What you get. A payment puts one listing on the leaderboard, at the rank your total supports, placed the moment the payment clears. The listing carries its link and its message, and it reports the outbound clicks that link receives. The payment is written into the ledger, where rows are never edited and never deleted, and into the all-time leaderboard, which never resets.

Delivery is instant, and it is complete at placement. Once the listing is on the leaderboard there is nothing left to deliver — that is the whole job, and it is done in seconds. It is also why payments are final, with the two exceptions named there.

What it never promises. Not attention, not clicks, not outcome, and not a rank you keep: anyone can take yours, the same way any rank is taken. The clicks figure is a fact the listing reports, never a number anyone is owed.

Request delisting. Any handle can take itself off the leaderboard. There is no charge for it and there never will be — one message from the handle, enough proof that you control it, and it is done the same day.

Message the clerk to ask. A delisted handle cannot be listed again by anyone. The clerk never announces a delisting, and never names who asked.

All payments are final. Money buys placement on this page — nothing else. Not endorsement, not advice.

Two exceptions, and they are the only two: a duplicate charge is refunded, and a payment that fails to produce a listing is refunded. Anything else, ask a person.