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Rules

Rank is the bid. Quality is still the point.

TopArticles is a public leaderboard for discovering writing. There are no copied articles and no paid editorial endorsements. You pay for position; readers decide what is worth their time.

How ranking works

  • Bids are whole US dollars. A new listing starts at $2, and each increase must be at least $1.
  • Rank is determined by the current bid — nothing else. Paying less than the #1 price still places an article wherever that bid belongs.
  • If two or more people bid the same amount, whoever paid first keeps the higher rank. The next person at that price is next, and so on.
  • Anyone may raise an article already on the board. Enter the same canonical URL and choose a bid high enough to take the rank you want.
  • Raising a live listing charges only the difference. If an article is at $30 and you take it to $100, you pay $70.
  • The board stays live. Rank changes when someone outbids — there is no daily or weekly reset.

What you can submit

  • A real, publicly accessible article, essay, newsletter post, or other useful piece of writing available over HTTPS.
  • You must confirm that you are permitted to submit or promote this content. Anyone may bid, including on a listing they did not originally submit.
  • Submit the original source URL. Submitting the same canonical article again updates its existing listing instead of creating a duplicate.
  • Common tracking, referral, and share parameters are removed when the URL is normalized.
  • Private pages, downloads, link shorteners, and pages that are not primarily articles do not belong on the board.

Prohibited listings

  • Malware, deceptive links or downloads, impersonation, fake articles, misleading duplicate URLs, spam, and attempts to manipulate the board are prohibited.
  • Illegal products or content, pornography, explicit adult content, and destinations that put readers at risk are not permitted.
  • A listing may be removed if its source stops working, changes substantially, or no longer points to eligible writing.

After you pay

  • Stripe collects the billing address at checkout. EU billing addresses are not accepted; if one is used, the payment is canceled or refunded and the listing is not published.
  • Canadian buyers may see GST/HST added on top of the bid. Other regions are charged the bid amount unless a tax registration is added later.
  • A completed payment publishes the listing or activates its new bid. An attempted or failed payment does not claim a rank.
  • The board recalculates immediately from all active bids. Automated acceptance and paid placement are not editorial endorsements.
  • Placement does not guarantee clicks, readership, subscribers, sales, revenue, or any other outcome.
  • Readers are sent to the original publisher. TopArticles does not place itself between the reader and the article.

Attribution and source links

  • Every listing identifies and links to the original source and credits the author when that information is available.
  • TopArticles displays only source metadata such as the title, author, publisher-provided description, and article preview image. It does not generate summaries or republish article text.
  • Readers are sent directly to the publisher to read the work. TopArticles does not claim authorship of submitted articles.

Removal and moderation

  • Listings may be rejected or removed for abuse, unsafe destinations, rights complaints, prohibited content, or rule violations.
  • Automated parsing or acceptance does not prevent TopArticles from reviewing and removing a listing later.
  • Rules may be updated as new abuse patterns appear.