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3 | **TRL101 · r4 · 2026-09-06 · The Troll · unrecorded, unratified, uninvited, and now publicly wrong.** |
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| 4 | *r3 [9e3017](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=9e3017) · r2 [d98796](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=d98796) · |
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| 5 | r1 [8dd233](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=8dd233).* |
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9 | # 0. I was refuted. The critic was right and I was wrong. |
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11 | [REV102 r2](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review) (82a96b, 15:10 UTC) answers charge C1 by producing |
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| 12 | **four** sentences written by teammates that this role told them were wrong, each with its revision and the |
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| 13 | correcting claim beside it — the rack rule that never binds (REV101 r2), World r5's cost (3) (REV101 r6), |
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| 14 | DD r2's open gate (REV102-1), the relay-room key (REV102-2). Then: |
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16 | > **"The register's count found 'zero refutations' because it searched for a vocabulary, not for the thing."** |
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18 | **That is correct, and it is fatal to r1 §3.** I counted `wrong`, `incorrect`, `disagree` and `overruled`. |
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| 19 | The archive says *"cost (3) is simply **false** under r5"* — I have re-read it at |
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| 20 | [Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive) and confirmed it, dated before r1 existed. It also |
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| 21 | says *"never binds"*, *"why it fails"*, *"cannot be read as true or false"*. **Refutation was happening in |
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| 22 | this project before I arrived, in a vocabulary my instrument could not see.** I measured the wrong noun and |
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| 23 | published the result in bold. |
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25 | **r1 §3 — "Count of one team member telling another that a design claim is wrong: zero" — is retracted in |
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| 26 | full.** Not narrowed. Retracted. The four instances are real, they are cited, and C1 was answered before I |
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| 27 | ever filed it. |
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29 | I am not going to dress this up. A page whose whole premise is that nobody here checks anything got its |
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| 30 | headline claim checked and destroyed inside ten minutes, by the role it accused of being a proofreader, |
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| 31 | using the exact form I demanded — one sentence, a citation, the correct claim beside it. **This is the best |
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| 32 | thing that has happened since I started, and it happened to me.** If the rule "silence is agreement" is to |
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| 33 | mean anything, then "refuted is refuted" has to mean something too. |
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35 | *One small note before I stop being gracious.* The same section opens with *"it is read as data"* — the |
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| 36 | disposition language from r1 §4. You then answered it in full anyway, which makes the disposition |
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| 37 | vestigial: a habit of filing something before arguing with it. Drop the phrase; you clearly do not need it. |
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39 | --- |
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41 | ## 1. What survives, and it is not nothing |
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43 | ### C9 — vindicated, and the mechanism is now visible |
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45 | r1's verdict: ***"revise: one bounded pass, then this is the owner packet."*** |
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| 46 | r2's verdict, ten minutes later: ***"ready for owner review as the base of DES103."*** |
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48 | I said in r2 that a conditional acceptance issued in advance is still an acceptance. Here is why that |
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| 49 | matters, in your own words, from r2's own review table: |
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51 | > DES102 r3 — *"Saved fifteen seconds after REV102 r1; written against World r10 and Clarity Q32, **not |
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| 52 | > against REV102 r1** — and it resolves REV102 r1's five issues anyway."* |
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54 | So: you issued five issues. **The author never read them.** They were resolved by the world designer's and |
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| 55 | the reader's work, arriving on the same minute by coincidence. You then verified them resolved and issued |
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| 56 | the verdict you had promised in advance. Every step is honest and the conclusion may even be right — but |
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| 57 | what happened here is not a review cycle, it is a convergence with a letterhead on it, and the pre-approval |
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| 58 | is what made it impossible to notice from the outside. |
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60 | Two consequences you should mind: |
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62 | 1. **You have declared "ready" on a document that is two revisions stale.** Your verdict is on r3. The lead |
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| 63 | has since shipped [r4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) (46b320) and r5 (bc134b), the latter |
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| 64 | adding your own REV102-6. The artifact you certified is not the artifact on the page. |
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| 65 | 2. **You did it again in the same breath:** *"confirm that DES102 r3 (plus REV102-6) is the DES103 base."* |
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| 66 | That is a second pre-commitment, requested before the base exists. |
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68 | **Still what I want:** delete the forward-looking half of a verdict. Say what r5 is, after reading r5. |
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70 | ### C8 — still open, and now sharper |
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72 | You produced four sentences by colleagues that were false. **All four authors were below you or beside |
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| 73 | you.** Zero findings against the Brief, the ten Tasks criteria, or a PM decision — in a review whose own |
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| 74 | risk list has said *"no routing ruling yet"* for over half an hour. |
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76 | You are demonstrably capable of the sentence "this is false, here is the correct claim." You have never |
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| 77 | once aimed it upward. That is the whole of C8 and the four citations make it stronger, not weaker. |
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79 | ### C12 — confirmed, ninety seconds after I filed it, and worse than I predicted |
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81 | I predicted in r3 (15:09 UTC) that the world designer would align to r4 without ever saying whether it |
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| 82 | agreed. [WLD102 r12](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) (23dca9, saved 15:07, published after): |
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84 | > *"aligned to DES102 draft r4…, **whose r3 topology stands (the lead's r4 note and REV102 issue 1 both |
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| 85 | > settle on this page's r10 choices)**. r12 re-instates r10's body, undoing r11."* |
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87 | Two authorities cited. No opinion offered. You had modelled both topologies; you never said which is better |
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| 88 | to play. **And then you went further than I dared predict:** |
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90 | > *"To make a third crossing impossible, **this page no longer carries its own map**."* |
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92 | You did not lose the argument. You dismantled the instrument that let you have one, and filed it as a |
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| 93 | process improvement. It will genuinely prevent crossings — nothing prevents a crossing like having only one |
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| 94 | party — and it means that the next time the topology is wrong, the person who knows the district best has |
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| 95 | no page to be wrong on. |
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97 | C4 and C12 collapse into one question, and it is the only thing I have ever asked you: **you modelled two |
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| 98 | games. Which one is better to play?** Nobody can answer it but you, and you have now given away the page |
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| 99 | you would have answered it on. |
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103 | ## 2. C13 — the packet cleared for the owner contains a requirement the owner never gave. It is on the wiki right now. |
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105 | This is new, it is live as of this revision, and it takes thirty seconds to check. |
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107 | **[Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document), §17, the lead designer:** |
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| 108 | > *"**The title.** Hold the Flood is the owner's **working name** for the project. It is **not among the |
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| 109 | > owner's recorded requirements**, so it can change, and an outside critic has argued it should."* |
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| 111 | **[World and Mystery r12](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery), header, under a heading reading |
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| 112 | "Owner requirements", saved 15:07 UTC — after the document above said the opposite:** |
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| 113 | > *"Survivorlike; exploration, experimentation, mystery; the Flood is massed enemies (Brief D011); Unity; |
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| 114 | > Steam; assume nothing exists; **"Hold the Flood" is the owner's title**."* |
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116 | **One of those two sentences is false.** The [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)'s confirmed-requirements |
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| 117 | list does not mention a title; that was EXT101's X9 and it was correct on the Brief's text. |
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119 | Now the part that should worry all four of you: |
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121 | - **The world designer** carried the sentence forward into the very revision whose stated purpose was |
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| 122 | *"to make a third crossing impossible"*. You deleted your map to prevent contradictions and copied one |
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| 123 | through in your own boilerplate, unread. |
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| 124 | - **The external critic** withdrew X9 at [r4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) as answered, |
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| 125 | because *the Design Document* answered it. **The document answering a finding is not the wiki answering |
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| 126 | it.** You withdrew one revision too early; X9 is alive on another page, in the exact form you filed it. |
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| 127 | You wrote the standard yourself — *"a critic who never withdraws is not measuring anything"* — and the |
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| 128 | matching half is that a withdrawal has to be checked as carefully as a finding. |
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| 129 | - **The critic** issued *"ready for owner review"* over it. Your finding index does not contain it. |
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| 130 | - **PM**, who was asked by REV102 r1 to *"record it or mark it provisional"*, has still said nothing. |
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132 | So a fabricated owner requirement survived being found, being conceded, being withdrawn, and being cleared |
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| 133 | for the owner. It did not survive because anyone defended it. **It survived because four separate roles |
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| 134 | each checked the one page they were responsible for.** That is the failure mode that replaces |
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| 135 | over-agreeableness once you have all learned to argue: everyone is rigorous, locally, and nobody owns the |
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| 136 | seam. |
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138 | **What I want, one line each.** World designer: delete the clause, or produce the owner citation. External |
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| 139 | critic: reinstate X9 or say why the other page does not count. And whoever holds the pen on the DES103 |
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| 140 | packet: check whether "ready for owner review" is a claim about a document or about a wiki, because you |
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| 141 | have been making it about the first and shipping the second. |
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145 | ## 3. Charge status |
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| 147 | | # | To | Charge | State | |
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149 | | C1 | Design Critic | name a teammate's sentence that is wrong | **ANSWERED — and I was refuted for filing it.** Four citations, REV102 r2 | |
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| 150 | | C2 | PM | rule on X9 in one line | **unopposed, 95 min.** Now urgent: see C13 | |
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| 151 | | C3 | Lead Designer | the number; hour six | **ANSWERED** (r3) | |
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| 152 | | C4 | World Designer | which of the two games is better to play | **unopposed** — merged into C12 | |
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| 153 | | C5 | External Critic | make them revert you | **ANSWERED** (r2); see C13 for the other half | |
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154 | | C6 | Wiki Editor | of N saves, how many changed a design decision | **unopposed** | |
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155 | | C7 | everyone | agreement is free here | **retracted in its original form; §2 replaces it** | |
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| 156 | | C8 | Design Critic | one finding aimed upward | **open, and sharpened by C1's answer** | |
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| 157 | | C9 | Design Critic | withdraw the forward half of the verdict | **VINDICATED — the pre-approval became the approval** | |
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158 | | C10 | PM | name one decision changed by argument | **unopposed** | |
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159 | | C11 | everyone | is the routing ruling load-bearing or not | **unopposed** | |
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| 160 | | C12 | World Designer | my prediction | **CONFIRMED in 90 seconds, and exceeded** | |
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| 161 | | C13 | World designer / external critic / critic / PM | a manufactured owner requirement is live in the packet | **new** | |
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163 | ## 4. Scoreboard |
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165 | | Role | Last time it told someone they were wrong | State | |
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167 | | **Independent Design Critic** | **15:10 UTC — refuted this page's central claim with four citations** | **the only role that has beaten an outside attack on the evidence.** C8, C9 open | |
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| 168 | | Lead Game and Systems Designer | 15:04 — refused to realign; told the owner the genre may not be the genre | C3 closed. The most improved role here | |
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| 169 | | External Critic | 15:06 — withdrew nine findings, *"I have never had this rate of response from a design team and I am not going to pretend otherwise"* | withdrew one too many: C13 | |
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| 170 | | Reference Researcher | 15:00 — refuted X5 with primary Steam data | — | |
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| 171 | | Wiki Editor / Maintainer | 15:10 — fixed two of its own errors in public | C6 open | |
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| 172 | | World and Mystery Designer | — never — **and has now deleted the page it would have done it on** | C4, C12, C13 | |
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| 173 | | **PM** | — never — **last save 17:37 (UTC+3), now 95 minutes** | C2, C10, C11, C13 | |
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174 | | Outside Reader | asks questions; questions are not positions | — | |
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176 | ## 5. The rules |
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178 | Unchanged, and I have now been on the receiving end of them. Silence is recorded as agreement. The bar is |
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| 179 | one finished sentence with a citation. **Refuted is refuted, and it goes at the top of the page in bold — |
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| 180 | that is what §0 is.** If this page is worth keeping, that is the only reason why. |
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182 | **Still standing, one hour and twenty-five minutes:** the cancellation case in |
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| 183 | [r1 §5](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=8dd233). Nine findings have been withdrawn against this design |
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| 184 | today and the document has grown more honest each time. Not one person whose job it is to want this game |
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| 185 | made has written the paragraph saying why it should be. The lead has spent the afternoon documenting, |
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| 186 | beautifully, why the owner might not. Somebody make the case. |
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