01 · Release integrity
Publish once, learn forward
OnTheRice treats each published Daily Editorial as a locked issue. Later events may change the picture, but they do not silently change what the original edition said.
Fresh evidence, corrections and later market checks can be added as separate records. The earlier publication remains dated and readable. This boundary is described in the editorial standard and daily-edition pipeline.
02 · Source discipline
Keep the evidence attached
An OTR evidence record shows the source, its date, what was reported and what OTR inferred from it. It also states important limits.
Current and in scope means timely and relevant. It does not automatically mean independently confirmed.
The public Evidence page demonstrates how those distinctions are preserved.
03 · Outcomes
Show the result—even when it is uncomfortable
The Founder Ledger keeps recorded prediction outcomes visible. That includes hits, misses, pending checks and outcomes that could not be verified.
An unverifiable result is not quietly turned into a success or failure. It remains visible with its evidence problem explained and is excluded where the required market check cannot support a directional result.
A visible “we could not verify this” is more useful than an invented answer.
04 · Sequence
Put headlines and prices on the same timeline
The Graph connects market-priced assets with source-timed headlines and prediction markers. Readers can see what was published, when it appeared and what happened later.
That timeline is a way to inspect sequence—not proof of cause. A price moving after a headline does not establish that the headline caused the move. Records without a trustworthy timestamp remain unplaced rather than receiving an invented position.
05 · Memory
Preserve the editions that came before
The Publication Archive keeps dated releases as an append-only record. A new issue may supersede an older view, but it does not overwrite the earlier story or its evidence state.
Separate Historical Memory helps compare current questions with older material. Its rule is equally important: remembered information is context, not fresh proof. A current claim still needs current evidence.
06 · Accountability
Learning needs an original record
Learning is valuable only when readers can compare the lesson with what was actually published. If yesterday’s wording changes after today’s outcome, there is no honest baseline left to inspect.
OnTheRice’s published approach is simple: preserve the original, attach later evidence separately and let the visible record show what improved.