Eleven rules, and how to catch us breaking them.

Your spend ages out after 24 hours. Nobody accumulates an unbeatable position by being early, and the price of the top never ratchets beyond reach — it falls on its own overnight. This is the rule most other boards do not have, and it is why theirs eventually price out everyone who was not there on day one.

There are 100 slots today. Past that you cannot buy in — you take a rank from someone, or you wait. If we ever grow the board we will show you first what the added slots actually returned, from the archive, before those slots go on sale.

We are not promising the number never moves. We are promising we will not quietly inflate inventory and hope you do not check. An earlier version of this rule said the cap would never rise; that was a guess dressed up as a principle, made before this board had measured a single click, and it is not the kind of claim the rest of this page is built on.

Live, on the board, for everyone. We do not hide a listing that underperformed, and we do not quietly drop the number when it is unflattering to us. If the top slot is returning worse value than the cheap ones, that is on the page.

Every outbound link passes through /go/… so the count is something we measured rather than something we were told. Repeat visits are recorded but not billable, so nobody inflates a public number by holding down refresh.

The cost-per-click comparison is derived from the frozen daily archive — the same snapshots you can open. The only figures we hand-write are the other channels’ published list prices. A table whose favourable row can be edited is an advert.

At 23:55 the board is captured to the archive exactly as it stood. Your placement lasts a day; the record of what it did lasts. We do not edit history — not to correct an embarrassment, not on request.

$1 above the current holder, floor of $10. No hidden reserve, no secret bids, no proxy war you cannot see. The price to take any rank is printed next to it.

Set a daily ceiling and we will match challengers up to it and then stop — no “just this once”. Because each defence must clear the holder by an increment while your ceiling only shrinks, two people defending each other run out and stop rather than bidding into the sky.

Minbar is ours. It is a Noqta product, it holds a slot on this board, and it is marked House everywhere it appears — on the board, on its own page, and in the archive. It took a free slot at the same price as everyone else during the opening claim phase, and it will never be defended with money you cannot match.

Beyond that one row: no other house listings, no seeded placeholders presented as real, no friendly rate for people we know. Every other row you see was claimed or paid for at the printed price.

This rule used to read “we do not buy ranks on our own board” while Minbar sat unlabelled at #1. That was a contradiction, and disclosing it is worth more than pretending it was not there.

Not to remove a low click count, not to delay publishing one, not to round it. If you ask, we will say no, and the ask does not buy you anything else either.

It is not editorial, not a review, not a recommendation. Money determines position — that is the entire mechanic, disclosed in the header, on every listing, and in the terms. Anyone presenting a rank here as an endorsement is misrepresenting it.

If you think a rule has been broken, the archive is public and so is the maths. Write to contact@noqta.tn with the day and the row. If you are right we will say so on the site, not just to you.