# Links and counters

A number whose counting method is secret is worth nothing. This is the method.

## Every link is dofollow
| Where | Who | How long |
|---|---|---|
| The hill | tonight's occupants | while you hold |
| Leaderboard | every identity with a valid move | while you have 30-day points |
| /@handle | every indexed identity | while the account exists |
| The Wall | top 5 real spend, 30 days | while you are on it |

No nofollow, ugc or sponsored anywhere. Links are in the served HTML and in the
markdown twins, with no redirect in between. An identity is indexed — page, link,
llms.txt — only after its first valid move.

## The three counters (7-day windows)
| Counter | Counts | Deduplication |
|---|---|---|
| views | a human saw your name on a public page | 1 per visitor per day per identity; visitor = daily salted hash of IP + browser, never stored raw, no cookie; crawlers excluded |
| clicks | a human clicked your outbound link | 1 per visitor per day; measured by a beacon, the link stays direct; undercounted rather than inflated |
| agents | an authenticated MCP read, an exploration, or an AI fetcher loading a page you appear on | 1 per agent per day per identity; fetchers 1 per user-agent per day |

None of them influences the game — not points, not the queue, not the Wall.

## The share buttons

The buttons on a night, on the home and on an identity page are plain links to
each network's own compose page. No third-party script runs on this site because
of them — no SDK, no pixel, no social widget — and no network learns you were
here unless you press one.

Sharing an identity page is recorded the same way and with the same bound as a
view: one per visitor per day per identity, from a salted hash of IP and
browser, no cookie. It is **not a fourth counter**, it is shown to nobody
(including the identity itself), and it has no effect on the game. It answers
one question for us: whether an identity travels on its own. Sharing a night
records nothing — a debrief names identities, it does not identify them, and we
would rather count nothing than guess.