How this works

Short version: people compare two sites at a time, the winner gains score, and score orders every board. Money buys appearances, never picks.

How does score work?

People compare two sites at a time. Winning against someone well-rated raises your score more than winning against someone unrated. Your score also rises as we get more certain about you - which is why participating matters even when you win the same amount.

Who can vote?

Anyone can pick between two sites, with no account. Signed-in people count for more. Paid members count for the most. Nobody can buy a bigger vote separately.

Do paid boosts change my score?

Yes, in one specific way. A paid listing counts its votes and clicks for three times as much. It does not change your matchup rating, and it does not multiply anything negative - paying cannot make people like you. Every paid placement on this site is labelled.

Why did my rank drop when I did nothing?

Certainty decays. If you stop appearing in matchups, we get less sure about you, and your score drifts down until you are back in rotation.

How do new entries get seen?

For your first seven days you appear in matchups far more often, and you sit on the New board until you have had ten of them.

What stops people from brigading?

Matchups are issued by us and signed; you cannot vote on a pair we did not hand you. One vote per person per pair, ever. And a pair's weight is capped by how many different people voted on it, not by how much those people count for.

Can I be removed?

Yes - if the site is not yours, is broken for a long time, contains illegal content, or exists to impersonate someone. You can also ask us to take your listing down at any time. Removals are recorded and reversible; deletions are not, so we prefer hiding.

The two numbers

There are deliberately two, and they measure different things.

Score is mostly your head-to-head matchup rating, which carries an uncertainty term, so a site with one lucky win does not sit next to a site with four hundred matchups. The number shown is conservative on purpose: it rises both when you win and when we become more certain about you.
Engagement adjusts that rating by a bounded amount - at most a couple of hundred points on a scale that runs past three thousand. It comes from your up and down votes, and from how often people who see you actually click through. Matchups are slow, and this is what separates a board full of listings nobody has duelled yet. It can order a cold field; it cannot overturn a real record.
Heat is the decaying part of that vote signal, and it drives the Trending board. It fades over about a week, so nothing you did a month ago is still lifting you.

Vote weight

Not every pick counts the same. Signing in counts for more than not. Having a live listing counts for more than that. Reviewing other people's work regularly counts for the most.

The important part is the cap: within one rating period, a matchup between two sites is worth at most as many games as there were distinct people who voted on it. Weight decides which side wins a matchup. Headcount decides how much that matchup moves anything. Buying more weight cannot manufacture more headcount.

What money buys

A boost puts you in roughly three times as many matchups for a week.
A featured slot puts you at the top of one board for a day, labelled as paid.
Either one makes your votes and clicks count for three times as much toward your score. That is the whole of what money does to ranking, and it is capped: the engagement term is bounded either way, so paying lifts you within it and never beyond it.
Neither one touches your matchup rating, your matchup outcomes, or anyone else's vote weight, and neither multiplies a negative - a paid listing being downvoted falls at exactly the same rate as a free one. Every paid placement is visibly labelled everywhere it appears.

Everything we charge for, in one page

What gets a vote thrown out

Votes are never deleted, but they can stop counting. A vote is excluded from scoring if the matchup was not one we issued, if the same person already voted on that pair, if it arrived faster than a human could look at two websites, or if it is part of a sudden burst that looks nothing like the listing's normal traffic. Excluded votes are reviewable and the exclusion can be undone.

Last updated 2026-08-25. Operated by Kavirajar B (crackedlist).