How ranking works

Servers are ranked on two things players care about: how many people play there, and how many vote for it. Score = (votes in the last 30 days + 10 × typical players online) × uptime. So a big server ranks high even if it never asks for votes, and a small server with a loyal community can climb by voting. Voting never needs an account.

Every vote goes through fraud checks. Votes that fail still reach the server so you get your reward. They just don't move the server up the list.

Fraud checks

One vote per IP per server per day	Always
Username that doesn't exist on Minecraft or Xbox	Not counted
Same IP voting for many different usernames	Not counted

Players

"Typical players" is the middle value of our own checks over the last 7 days, so short spikes don't count. Player counts that look hard-coded (the same number all week, always at max slots, or impossibly high) don't count until we've checked them. Faking player counts gets a server's players ignored for ranking.

Uptime

We ping every server every 5 minutes. 95% uptime or more keeps the full score. Below that the score drops, and under 50% it's zero. Servers offline for 3 days are hidden until they're back.

Botting

First time: votes reset to 0 for the month. Second time: removed from the list.

How ranking works

Fraud checks

Players

Uptime

Botting

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