How bumps work

The whole mechanic, in a few sentences.

A chart is five names in an order. Five, always.

Every name carries a count of the bumps it has been given, and one bump adds one to it. Any of the five can be bumped, the one on top included, and there is no bump that takes a name down.

The order is those counts, highest first, and two names on the same count keep the order they reached it in. So a bump can carry a name several places, one place, or none at all — the count always changes, the place may not.

You can bump without signing in: three bumps every seven days, counted by a cookie in this browser. They come back on their own; signing in gives you more, and a link of your own to bring friends.

Bumps come from five places: three every seven days without signing in, some when you first sign in, a top-up back to three every week once you have, more when a friend joins through your link and spends their first one, and five when a chart you made goes live. Never from money.

Likes are not on the screen at the moment. They never changed an order anyway.

Whoever made a chart sets its starting order, and we check it before it goes up. You set everything after that.

Bumps have no monetary value. They cannot be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for anything.

Charts are entertainment. They are not surveys, not predictions, and not a measurement of public opinion or of quality.

Bumps and likes are visible to everyone.