{
  "handle": "Belongbend",
  "gloss": "Record private judgments before discussion, so shifts that may protect group membership can be reviewed",
  "mechanism": "Before a group discusses a judgment, each member records a private judgment, frozen like a {{counterfactual_anchor}}. Public statements are then compared with the private records, and each shift toward the group's apparent view is recorded with the reason the member gives for it.",
  "invariants": [
    "Private judgments are recorded before discussion begins and are not changed afterwards.",
    "A member's public shift from its private judgment is recorded with a stated reason."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Preference falsification: members state the group view while privately holding another.",
    "Exposed privacy: private records are not kept private, so members falsify them too."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Society",
      "Protocols"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Silencevote",
      "Normance"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:38:21+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Belongbend#mh:SHA-256:31f206755fd53787a1669629c924af28e7f46353b02225f624e3580d33ff1047",
  "sema_ref": "Belongbend#31f2",
  "sema_stub": "31f2",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "counterfactual_anchor": "sema:CounterfactualAnchor#mh:SHA-256:b8c3c5aca4a8adba07c19d0f6103387c6f7cf9b67ade40b412fa39e41fdb3adf"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Society",
  "sema_category": "Protocols",
  "used_by": {}
}