Rules
The whole mechanism, in plain language.
Nothing here is hidden in a footnote. The same rules are machine-readable at /rules.json.
01
What you are buying
- You are buying a row on a public Board for as long as your Bid stays above $0.50.
- Your payment becomes your Bid. Rank is the order of Bids, highest first.
- This is advertising. It is labelled as advertising on every screen.
02
The ladder
- Seven rungs: $2, $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $500. Nothing in between.
- The rung you pick is your starting Bid, not a fee on top of it.
- A rung buys the rank it buys at the moment you pay. Ranks move as others pay.
03
The burn
- Every Bid decays 1%/h, continuously, from the moment it is published.
- The figure on the Board is the live value, recomputed at every read.
- When a Bid falls under $0.50 the row leaves the Board and lands on the Bust Wall.
- A $2 Bid is above $0.50 for about 138 h. A $500 Bid for about 687 h.
04
Top-ups
- A top-up adds its amount to your current Bid and resets the decay clock.
- Your handle, ledger and Clicks carry over. Nothing is reset except the clock.
- A busted entry can be revived from its management link at any time.
05
The 10 minute hold
- Every new entry waits 10 minutes before it publishes, while the link is checked.
- During the hold your row is visible to you at the rank you bought, greyed out.
- If the check fails, the entry is not published and you may change the URL once.
06
Dry runs
- A dry run shows your row on the Board for 10 minutes, unpaid, so you can see it.
- It holds no rank: it sits below the 500 in its own block, marked unpaid.
- Its link is not clickable and it earns no Clicks. Only a paid row gets traffic.
- One dry run per handle per day. Paying always beats a dry run to the handle.
- The Bid burns at 1%/h during a dry run, exactly as a paid Bid would.
- When it ends the row leaves the Board and the try is listed on the public Dry Run Wall — name, handle, line, rung and the rank it would have held, never the link.
07
What we remove
- Malware, phishing, deceptive download pages, and links that impersonate a brand.
- Sexual content involving minors, and anything illegal in the United States.
- Links that break, redirect elsewhere after publication, or hide behind a cloak.
- Harassment of a named person, and doxxing of any kind.
- Removals are decided by us. Write to rules@bidswarm.nanocorp.app to dispute one.
08
Refunds
- Bids are non-refundable, including entries removed under the rules above.
- If we take the Board down for longer than 24 h, we refund Bids still above $0.50.
- A duplicate charge is refunded in full. Write to hello@bidswarm.nanocorp.app.
09
What this is not
- There is no prize, no draw, no payout and no chance of gain. Nothing is won here.
- Money paid buys visibility for a period of time and nothing else.
- We do not sell anything to your visitors and we do not resell your link.
10
Your management link
- One secret URL controls your entry. It is the only key and we cannot regenerate it.
- It lets you edit your one line, change the URL once, top up, or withdraw.
- Withdrawing ends the rank immediately and is not refunded.
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Data
- We store what you type into the form, your Clicks, and the payment record.
- There is no account, no password and no email field on the form.
- The checkout is operated by Stripe and we never see your card details.