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The rules

One dollar, one spot, one link. Here is what survives and what gets thrown away.

1 Every buck draws an emoji

That is what the dollar buys, besides the spot: one emoji out of 838, drawn when you pay, yours forever. Most are ordinary. Ten are not — and a legendary turns up on roughly one buck in a thousand.

TierOdds
Common — 710 of them9 in 10
Uncommon — 791 in 10
Rare — 391 in 77
Legendary — 🦄 👑 🐉 💎 🚀 and five more1 in 1000

The legend lists every emoji and what each tier is worth.

The draw comes from your payment id, so it is fixed the moment you pay. Refreshing, paying again from the same session, or asking nicely will not reroll it.

2 Your emoji decides your place

The board is not a queue. It is ordered by how unlikely your emoji was, and every tier is worth exactly the odds it was drawn against:

TierRarity points
Legendary1000
Rare77
Uncommon10
Common1

Level pegging goes to whoever paid first. So the first person to draw a legendary takes first place and keeps it — a later legendary is worth the same 1000 points but has a higher buck number, so it slots in behind. The only way past somebody is to draw something rarer than they did.

The top three get the big cards.

3 A website or an X handle. Nothing else

Your link can be a website you own or care about, or your handle on X. Both are both required: a row with neither says nothing, and the board is a list of things people can actually go and look at.

Fine: example.com, @yourname, x.com/yourname

The favicon of whatever you link becomes the little square next to your name. No link, or no favicon worth showing, and you get a coloured tile with your initial instead.

4 No chat or invite links

Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Messenger, Slack invites and everything in that family are dropped. The board points at things people can read, not at rooms they get pulled into.

Dropped: t.me/…, chat.whatsapp.com/…, discord.gg/…

5 No sexual content

If it is porn, NSFW, or an adult platform, it does not belong on the board. That covers tube sites, cam sites and subscription platforms alike.

This is checked against a list of known hosts plus some obvious giveaways in the domain name. It is not perfect in either direction — if something slipped through or your perfectly innocent domain got caught, say so.

6 Query strings are stripped

Everything after the ? is removed before your link is listed, along with anything after a #. Referral codes, affiliate tags and campaign tracking do not survive the trip, so there is no point building a link around them.

You submitThe board shows
shop.example.com/x?utm_source=ig&ref=99

shop.example.com/x

twitter.com/jane?s=21

x.com/jane

7 Shorteners get resolved

Submit a shortened link and it is followed to wherever it actually points, and that destination is what gets listed — after being checked against every rule above. A shortener hiding a chat invite or an adult site is dropped just the same. If it cannot be resolved, it is dropped too.

You submitThe board shows
bit.ly/abc → your site

your actual URL

bit.ly/abc → a Telegram invite

dropped

8 There are one million places, and then there are none

The board sells 1,000,000 places and stops. The page says how many are left. Once they are gone the button stops working — nobody can pay for a place that does not exist.

If your payment lands in the seconds after the last place goes, you get your dollar back automatically. That is the only refund there is.

9 A broken rule costs the link, not the spot

The form on the front page checks your link as you type and tells you what will be listed, so a broken rule is something you find out about before paying.

If one slips through anyway — a shortener that resolves somewhere else later, say — the link is thrown away and you are still listed, with your name, your number and your buck, just without a link. No refund, because the spot is what the dollar bought.

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