Rules
How the live burn board works.
- Fund your tank. Deposit credits into your wallet, then allocate a tank amount to a slot. The bigger your tank, the longer you stay on the board.
- Set a burn rate. Rank is ordered by burn rate (dollars per minute), from a $0.25/min minimum in $0.05 steps. The board's reference ladder: #1 burns $1.00/min, #2 burns $0.50/min, #3 and below burn the $0.25/min floor — outbid any slot by one step to take its place.
- Hold your rank. Anyone can outbid you at any time. If they set a higher per-minute burn, you drop a rank.
- Burn out. When your tank hits zero, your slot is removed instantly. Unburned credits are returned to your wallet when you are bumped off.
- Community vault. 10% of every credit burned flows into the daily Community Vault, which is given away free to spectators. Advertisers fund it, but buying ads never buys entries — see the official rules below.
Daily Competition — Advertiser Rules
A separate, non-cash contest for advertisers. It runs alongside the Vault and has no bearing on it.
- Cycle. Each competition runs 13:00–13:00 UTC. The cycle closes at 13:00 UTC (2pm BST) and results are archived permanently to the Hall of Fame.
- Winning. The King of the Day is the listing holding rank #1 for the most total seconds across the cycle — not the highest single burn rate. Ties are broken by total credits burned, then by earliest first bid.
- Prizes. The King of the Day receives the crown on the board, a permanent Hall of Fame entry, and a 1-hour Golden Lockout at #1 the following day, burning nothing. Prizes are non-cash, non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for credits.
- Burnouts. Time held at #1 still counts if you later burn out, but a slot removed for a rules breach forfeits all accrued crown time.
- No self-dealing. Reactions, reviews, clicks or referrals generated by the slot owner, their team, or coordinated accounts are discarded and may void the listing's standing.
- Operator review. Results are settled from the immutable snapshot ledger. Where a snapshot shows manipulation, the operator may reassign or withhold the crown.
Listing Standards & Conduct
- Working link required. Every listing must point to a live, publicly reachable URL that passes the automated link check. Dead links can be flagged by visitors and removed.
- Honest metadata. Title, description and favicon are pulled from your own page. Do not cloak, redirect, or swap the destination after your slot goes live.
- Correct category. Pick the category that genuinely matches your product. Miscategorised listings may be recategorised or removed.
- Prohibited content. No malware, phishing, adult content, illegal goods, hate speech, scams, unlicensed financial or gambling offers, or anything that breaches applicable law.
- No traffic manipulation. Bots, click farms, automated bidding, captcha bypass and rate-limit evasion are prohibited. Fraudulent clicks are discarded from stats and repeat offenders are banned.
- Link attributes. Live listings carry standard follow links. Once a slot burns out or is archived, the link is switched to nofollow and the page to noindex.
- Enforcement. The operator may remove a listing at any time for a breach. Removal for a breach forfeits the remaining tank; removal for any other reason refunds it in full.
- Credits. Credits are prepaid ad inventory, not currency or an investment. Burned credits are non-refundable; unburned tank credits return to your wallet on eviction.
Community Vault — Official Rules
The Community Vault is a free-to-enter prize draw open to spectators. It is not a lottery, a wager, or a game of chance requiring payment.
No purchase necessary
No purchase necessary. Buying ad credits, placing a bid or refuelling a slot does not grant Community Vault tickets and does not improve your odds of winning.
Who is eligible
- Open to natural persons who are 18 years of age or older (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) and located in a territory where free-entry prize draws are legal.
- Employees, contractors, directors, and immediate family members of the operator (and any companies affiliated with the board) are not eligible to win.
- Advertisers and listing owners may enter as spectators, but they cannot earn tickets from their own listings or paid actions.
- Void where prohibited or restricted by law. If a jurisdiction does not allow this type of promotion, residents of that jurisdiction are not eligible.
How to enter — free methods only
- React to a listing. 🔥 / 🚀 / 💩 on any slot1 ticket(once per slot per day)
- Visit a listed product. Click through and dwell at least 15s on site1 ticket(once per slot per day)
- Leave a micro-review. Write a short honest review of a listing3 tickets(once per slot per day)
- Complete the daily bounty. Finish the free daily task10 tickets(once per day)
- Refer a friend. Share your free referral link and a new visitor claims a ticket3 tickets(per successful referral)
Every entry method above is free and requires no account, deposit, or payment of any kind. Tickets are awarded automatically once the action is verified by our anti-fraud checks. Entries are weighted only by the number of valid tickets you earn.
Advertiser exclusion
- Purchasing credits, placing a bid, raising a burn rate, or refuelling a slot grants zero Vault tickets. Ad spend has no effect on entry count or odds.
- Advertisers may not react to, review, or earn tickets from their own listings. Self-directed actions on a slot you own are rejected.
- Advertisers compete for a separate, non-cash prize: the King of the Day crown, the Golden Lockout hour, and a permanent Hall of Fame listing.
Draw schedule
- Each daily competition period runs from 13:13:00 UTC to 12:59:59 UTC the next day. Tickets earned during a period expire when that period closes and do not carry over.
- The board snapshot ledger closes the period at 13:00 UTC (2pm BST). The operator then reviews the ledger and entries for fraud or manipulation before the draw is run.
- The draw is normally held within 24 hours of period close. If the operator needs additional time for review, the pool rolls forward into the next period and no draw is held until the review is complete.
- If no eligible entries are recorded for a period, the entire pool rolls forward to the next period.
- Winning odds for any period equal your valid tickets divided by the total valid tickets for that period.
Prizes and winner notification
- The Community Vault pool is funded by 10% of all ad credits burned during the period. It is split 50% / 30% / 20% among three randomly drawn entrants, weighted only by valid tickets earned.
- Winners are notified by email to the address they provided when claiming their free ticket or, if logged in, to the email on their account. Ensure your email is correct; the operator is not responsible for misdirected messages.
- After notification, winners have 48 hours to confirm their claim and provide any identity or payment details requested. Unclaimed prizes are forfeited and rolled into the next period's pool.
- Confirmed prizes are paid out within 14 business days by the operator's chosen method (for example, PayPal, bank transfer, or another widely available payment service).
- Winner first names and partial email addresses may be published on the daily results page and in the Hall of Fame once the prize is confirmed. Full contact details are never published.
- Winners are responsible for any taxes, duties, or fees imposed by their jurisdiction. The operator may require a tax form or identity verification before releasing prizes above a threshold.
Entry integrity
- One person may not use multiple accounts, temporary emails, VPN loops, bots, click farms, or any automated means to inflate entries. Fraudulent or duplicate entries are removed and may result in disqualification and a ban from future draws.
- All entries pass Cloudflare Turnstile, browser fingerprinting, IP reputation, and dwell-time checks before tickets are issued.
- The operator's decision on eligibility, fraud, and prize awards is final.
Questions about these rules? Reach the operator via the contact page.