Listed, not drawn
Everyone else
The board is 100 spots wide and no wider. Once more companies are listed than that, the last spot becomes the tile that brought you here and 99 advertisers are drawn around it. Past that cut are 6 companies — still ranked, still linked, just not on screen.
105 listed · 99 drawn · 6 not drawn
01 — The list
Ranked 100 to 105
02 — The mechanic
Why a company is listed but not drawn
A company past the cut loses nothing but the rectangle. Its total stands, its rank is real, and its profile page stays online at its own address — which is where every link to that company already points.
That is arithmetic rather than judgement. The board has 100 spots, so once more companies are listed than that, the smallest spot comes here. It is how everyone past the cut keeps a rank, a listing and a link instead of getting nothing for their money.
Nor is it permanent. Rank follows total contribution, so the cut moves every time anyone pays, in both directions.
03 — Getting drawn
What it takes to be on the board
- Companies listed
- 105
- Drawn on the board
- 99
- Listed here
- 6
- Total that gets you drawn
- $2
$2 is the total that gets a tile drawn. Arriving on a full board pushes the cut up by one, because the last spot goes to this page — so the figure is a dollar past the 99th company, since matching an amount never passes it. If you are already listed you pay the difference between that and what you have paid so far, not the whole figure.
To add to a listing that already exists, open its own profile page and pay again. Everything here is keyed to the domain, so the amount stacks onto the listing you have; it never creates a second one. A company that is not listed at all starts from the board itself.