Rules

There is no algorithm here, and nothing to game. Position on the board is the amount paid, and that is the whole system.

How ranking works

Bids are whole US dollars. New listings start at $5.
Taking #1 costs $5 more than the current leader. Displacing any other spot costs $1 more than that spot.
A smaller bid is still welcome — it simply lands wherever that amount reaches on the board.
Bids do not expire and are never refunded. A listing keeps its amount until its owner raises it or someone pays past it.
When two listings sit at the same amount, the one that got there first keeps the higher spot.

Submit the same link again with a higher number. The new amount must be at least $1 above your current one.
You are only charged the difference. Nobody else can take your spot by paying that difference — they have to beat your full amount.

A product or company website, or an X profile entered as @handle.
Query strings are stripped from every link, so referral and tracking URLs will not survive submission.
Link shorteners are resolved to wherever they actually point, and that destination is what gets listed.
Platform links — App Store, Play Store, GitHub and similar — are keyed by their path, so two products on one platform stay separate listings.
Group chat and invite links are not accepted. Neither is adult content.

A completed payment is what claims a spot. Nothing moves before then.
Your listing is public, and its title and description are read from the page you submitted.
Clicks go straight to your link, with tracking parameters removed.

Completing a payment confirms you have read the pricing above and authorise the charge for the amount shown.
If something goes wrong with a purchase, email contact@unseat.lol and we will sort it out. Please get in touch before raising a dispute with your bank — it is faster, and we can usually fix the problem directly.
Charges appear on your statement as UNSEAT.
None of this removes any right you have that cannot legally be waived.