Trust · Ranking methodology
How we rank — and our never-paid-placement pledge
Every leaderboard is ordered by real, counted hearts — never by who paid the most. Here's exactly how a heart becomes a rank, the votes we throw out, and the single paid slot we always label.
The ranking signal
How the leaderboard is ordered
One signal sets every rank: real, counted hearts in the current calendar month, highest first. Money, ad spend and subscriptions have no effect.
Counted hearts only
A heart is one player vouching for one server. That count — and nothing else — orders the board.
Monthly reset
Rankings use this month's hearts and reset monthly, so the board shows who's thriving now — not a frozen hall of fame.
All-time kept
A server's all-time total is preserved alongside the monthly count, for posterity.
One a day
How hearts work
One heart per server, per day — no more. A high total can only come from many real people coming back, not one script.
- A heart costs a day. One per server per day means a big total can only come from many real people, not one script.
- Hearts are tracked per voter and per server; the monthly count rolls to zero each month while the all-time total is kept.
Fraud filtering
The votes we throw out
Before a heart counts it's scored for fraud. Anything that looks automated is flagged and excluded — stored for auditing, never added to the total.
Bot user-agents
Votes from known bot or crawler user-agents are thrown out.
IP bursts
Bursts of votes from a single network address in a short window.
Fingerprint fan-out
One browser fingerprint fanning across many servers within an hour.
No fingerprint
A vote with no browser fingerprint is treated as more suspicious.
The pledge
Our never paid placement pledge
Hearts decide the order, full stop. We have exactly one paid feature — and we always label it.
No paid rank, ever
We don't sell rank, weight, or position. A server can buy the Powerup for presentation, but it never moves a server up any ranking.
The one paid slot: the Daily Spotlight
The daily Spotlight is bid-for in a sealed auction — always labelled, shown apart, and it never changes a server's rank.
Why this is different
A legal-integrity claim, not a slogan
Across the toplist industry, paying for position is a common, openly advertised model. That's the practice we reject.
A regulator has acted on this
In the US, the Federal Trade Commission took action against the rankings site LendEDU for selling placement while presenting its lists as objective. Undisclosed paid rank is exactly the conduct regulators have sanctioned.
A matter of public record
We state that precedent as a matter of public record and make no accusation about any particular named competitor."Never paid placement" is a legal-integrity claim for us, not a slogan.
Verify it yourself
How to check us
Don't take our word for it — verify. Read any leaderboard against this policy; the order should track monthly hearts with no exceptions.
Audit any board
Find a rank hearts don't explain? Email hello@mmolove.gg— we'll show our working, and fix it if we're wrong.
Per-server integrity record
Every server has a public, month-by-month log of counted vs flagged hearts at /[game]/[server]/integrity. Aggregate-only — no individual voter data.
Site-wide reports
The monthly Integrity Report and the Server Popularity Index publish the totals and the fraud-signal breakdown.
See for yourself
Read the board against the policy
The order should track monthly hearts with no exceptions — the only thing outside the ranked list is the labelled Daily Spotlight.
One heart at a time.
Never bought. Never faked.