TAIL is an unbiased system for documenting claims, evidence, and outcomes. It does not declare truth. It records what was claimed, when, by whom, with what evidence, and what reality did next. These articles are the rules every future feature must obey — and the restraints this project places on its own future self.
v1.0 · Ratified July 19, 2026 · Kevin Richardson, Founder
What was claimed can never be edited, reworded, or deleted — not by the claimant, not by an administrator, not by the founder. The exact words, the timestamp, and the attribution are permanent from the moment of submission.
A claim carries weight because a real, identifiable person put their name on it. Anonymity and accountability are incompatible; a ledger of disposable identities is just another comment section. Verification levels exist so that identity can be established — and displayed — in proportion to what a claim asks the world to believe.
Email addresses and identity documents stay private. Display name, verification level, full claim history, and accuracy record are public — always. Those are two different things, and TAIL will never confuse them.
A claim made by a person about themselves is not the same as a claim recorded from a public statement, submitted by a third party, or observed by the community. The origin is declared at submission and is immutable thereafter. TAIL never blurs "the person said this" with "someone says the person said this."
An election. A filing. An earnings report. A study. A court decision. Time. The resolution event is named at submission, so no one can move the goalposts after the fact. TAIL should know how a claim will be evaluated before the world knows the answer.
Outcomes can change as new verified evidence emerges — that is honesty, not weakness. But every addition and every change is itself a permanent entry. The ledger grows. It never rewrites.
No comments. No arguing. No ratios. The moment arguments become the product, TAIL becomes another social network. The record speaks: here is what was claimed, when, with what evidence, and what happened. Readers decide what to believe. Truth is more likely to emerge from a transparent, consistent process than from any system that claims to possess it.
Not volume. Not followers. Not confidence. Credibility on TAIL emerges from one thing only: how often what you said turned out to be true, measured over time, in public.
When a claim is resolved, the ledger permanently records who resolved it, when, on what evidence, and by what rule. Nothing happens behind closed doors. If power is ever abused, the abuse itself becomes part of the ledger.
This article does not claim the founder is incorruptible. It assumes no one is — and aims to make the system resilient anyway. Today, this is a commitment being engineered into architecture: append-only records, a permanent administrative audit trail, and external anchoring of the ledger so that tampering by anyone, founder included, is detectable by everyone.
The founder's goal is to eventually become just another verified account — with historical recognition, and no special power over history.
| v1.0 — Jul 19, 2026 | Constitution ratified. Ten articles. |
This constitution may be amended. Every amendment is public, permanent, and recorded here. The rules do not live in anyone's head.