Eligibility and frequency
A non-automated visitor can vote once for each server during each UTC day. The allowance is based on public IP, so several people behind the same household, workplace, VPN exit or carrier network may share one allowance.
What is stored
The vote system stores the server identifier, UTC date and a keyed HMAC marker derived from the public IP. It does not require an account, username or email and does not store the raw IP in the vote record.
What a vote means
A vote means that one eligible network expressed interest in a profile on a particular day. It is not a verified player review, proof that the voter joined, proof of population, or an objective measure of security, fairness or uptime.
Prohibited manipulation
Automated voting, rotating proxies, botnets, paid vote packages, vote exchanges, deceptive rewards and attempts to bypass technical limits are prohibited.
- We may remove suspicious markers or recalculate totals
- We may block abusive traffic or disable voting during an incident
- Advertising customers receive no extra votes
- A correction dispute is not decided by vote count
Display and ranking
Profile pages can show today’s and all-time totals. The dedicated community-interest chart uses the latest seven UTC days and publishes its limits alongside the table. Homepage source order and first-party featured placement are not automatically reordered by votes.
After documented abuse review, an administrator can exclude affected UTC dates, pause new votes or remove a server from the public chart. These actions do not rewrite the source snapshot or convert advertising into votes; each control change receives an internal immutable audit record.
Appeals
Use Contact to report manipulation or an incorrect total. Provide the profile, date range and observable evidence. We do not disclose secrets, individual network markers or information that would help bypass the system.