Reasonable objections

Anybody can write anything in a claim. What they cannot do is make it look corroborated. A claim’s status is derived from what is attached to it — evidence sighted, an organisation contacted, another filed person putting their own name to it — and none of those are things the filer can grant themselves. A record full of unevidenced claims is perfectly possible here, and it reads exactly like what it is.

The second defence is that the system is built to preserve uncertainty rather than resolve it. Someone who knows better can sign a dispute against a specific claim, and then both statements sit on the record permanently, neither adjudicated. Lying is not prevented. It is made visible, attributable, and awkward to maintain.

The third is the disclosures section, which a liar finds genuinely difficult, because the convincing version costs something real to write.

No number is computed anywhere in this system. There is no score, no rank, no ordering of people, and no hidden field waiting to be switched on — the index is alphabetical or by date and those are the only two code paths that exist. Counts are shown because they are facts; they are never added together, and a longer record is not a better one.

If you derive a score from this data, that is yours. Please do not attribute it to us.

The practical use is as a portable reference: one permanent address you can link from a personal site, a portfolio, a bio, a job application, or a creator profile. Not here is my score — there isn’t one — but here is a dated, evidenced, amendable record of things I have actually done, including the parts that do not flatter me.

That is a different object from a CV, and it is a considerably more credible one, for exactly the reason a CV is not: it contains the things a CV would leave out.

A document verification means this office sighted the evidence against the claim. An organisation or public-record verification means a named external body or public register confirmed it. An attestation means another filed person vouched for that specific claim under their own name. Each shows who did it and when, so you can disagree with the particular act of checking rather than with a badge.

What the office cannot do is investigate anyone’s life, and it does not pretend otherwise — see the policy on disputes.

Withdrawal marks the record as no longer asserted and stops it being indexed further. The document stays at its address, readable, with the date and your stated reason. Same for a single claim. This is the trade the archive asks for in exchange for a filing meaning anything at all: if records could be unmade, a clean one would tell you nothing.

It is worth knowing that before you file, which is why it is written here and on the filing page.

Handles are mutable; filing IDs are permanent. A citation made against TLR-2026-000005 or against a claim reference like TLR-2026-000005-C02 keeps resolving after a rename, and former handles continue to redirect to the current address. Cite the reference, not the URL.

Filing currently takes you at your word about who you are, which is a slightly funny position for this particular website. Handles are unique and non-reassignable, and that is the only guarantee on offer today. It is listed among the known limitations in DECISIONS.md, along with what it blocks: editing a filed record, filing an attestation, and raising a dispute all need identity to mean anything.