Dáil
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What it is
Every judgement here is made by people who use the place. Decentralised moderation, in the plain sense of the words: not a moderation team, not a policy department, not a model — eight peers who each put their own standing behind the call, and lose some of it if the panel goes the other way.
A Brehon was a judge under Irish law whose authority came from being trusted rather than appointed. That's the idea. Contested calls escalate to a Dáil of Ard-Brehons, and a random slice of finished rulings gets re-reviewed whether anyone complains or not.
How it works
You've already proven you're a unique human (your Anam) — these are the steps that follow.
- 1
A task opens
Something needs judging: whether an Eolas question is a real one, whether an answer addresses it, whether a commissioned piece meets the brief, or whether a reported post breaks the standard. It becomes a task, and eight Brehons are seated to decide it.
- 2
You take a seat
If you have the standing, you take one of eight seats. It costs nothing to sit — the seat isn't bought, it's earned by being right before. And who you are stays pseudonymous on both sides, so you're judging the work rather than the person, and nobody is judging you for who you are either.
- 3
Commit, then reveal
Brehons vote by commit–reveal so no one can copy the crowd. A supermajority (6 of 8) is needed for a decision to stand.
- 4
The majority gains standing; the minority loses it
When the verdict settles, Brehons on the majority side earn Enech — which itself pays out weekly in $BONN — and those on the minority side lose some. Honest, careful judgment is the only profitable strategy.
- 5
Contested calls escalate
A decision that's challenged can be escalated to a second panel of Ard-Brehons — Brehons with higher standing — to settle it.
The loop
What you gain
- Enech for every verdict that turns out to be the right one — the fastest honest way to build standing from nothing.
- A weekly $BONN payout scaled by that standing.
- Nothing to put up: a seat costs nothing on any task, so you can judge, be right, and build your first standing before any $BONN is involved.
What $BONN is for
- Enech, when a verdict goes against the majority — and 5% of your passive $BONN stake goes with it.
- Bounties on Eolas and boosts on Gairm, which is what the standing you build here is ultimately for.
Judging well is how someone with no money and no reputation starts: a seat costs nothing to take, and being right raises your honour-price. Platform cuts flow to the community vault, which pays everyone weekly — so the people who do the unglamorous work of holding the standard are funded by the same pot they protect.
Know the risks
This is real, staked participation — not a feed you can throw away. Before you take part, understand what you can lose.
- You put your standing behind every vote. Sitting on a Dáil means backing your verdict with your own Enech. If you end up on the minority side of the panel, you lose some of it — and a piece of your stake goes with it, so buying standing does not buy immunity.
- Rubber-stamping costs you. Voting without doing the work — rubber-stamping or guessing — is exactly what losing Enech is designed to punish. Someone asked for a fair reading, and careless votes cost you standing, which is what your weekly payout is scaled by.
- Reputation is on the line. Getting it right raises your Enech; being on the wrong side lowers it. Which Dáils you may sit on depends on the honour-price you have built, so the people judging the most consequential work are the ones who have earned it.
- You can't just start over. One verified human maps to one account. A Brehon who burns their reputation can't reset it with a fresh account — there are no alts.
The principles
The roles
Brehon — anyone with enough standing to take a seat. Eight sit on a panel. You don't apply and you aren't appointed; you take the next case in the queue.
Ard-Brehon — a Brehon whose standing is high enough to hear a contested call. The word means "high judge". Nobody grants it; it's a threshold you cross by being right often enough to have accumulated the standing.
Both were real offices under Irish law, where a judge's authority rested on being trusted rather than appointed — and where getting a ruling wrong cost the judge personally. We kept that part.
You cannot see the room before you decide
Each Brehon submits a hidden commitment to their verdict and reveals it afterwards. Nobody can see which way the panel is leaning while there is still time to join it, so agreeing with the majority is not a strategy — forming your own judgement is. That is what makes the majority signal worth anything.
You cannot shop for the easy tasks
You can narrow the kind of work you are offered, but not preview a task and decline it. The queue holds one offer until you accept or spend a skip on it. Cherry-picking would let jurors take only the obvious cases and leave the hard ones unjudged, which is precisely where careful judgement is worth paying for.
Being wrong costs, and so does appealing
Sit outside the majority and you lose Enech — and a rep loss takes 5% of your passive $BONN stake with it, so standing bought with money is not a shield.
Believe a panel got it wrong and you can contest, by putting money behind it: on a paid ruling that's twice the responder's stake, returned in full if you turn out to be right. An appeal that risked nothing would simply be filed every time.
Rulings are also re-reviewed at random after the fact, so judging carelessly is a risk even when nobody complains about that case.
Free-tier judging is the way in
No seat is paid in $BONN. Every task pays in standing, so a newcomer can build their first reputation by judging immediately — bountied requests and contests ask for more standing to sit on, not for money.
Ready to take part?
On your first visit you'll confirm you've read this page and understand the risks before you can act.
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