What is actually built

Running

In production, used by real people.

Built, unused

Real, working code that has never done the thing it was written for.

Simulated

The logic exists; the thing it talks to does not.

Design only

Written down. Not built.

• Interest registration

  Running

  Double opt-in signup with a single-use confirmation token. Runs against the real database, proven end-to-end. Your position on the list is counted from confirmed registrations rather than stored, so it cannot drift.

• The fact-check corpus

  Running

  Sourced entries covering BIPs, established facts, contested claims and topic briefs. Genuinely feeds the moderator’s fact-check tool. Published in full on this site.

• Member accounts and sign-in

  Running

  Email magic-link sign-in, no passwords anywhere. You are on that system right now.

• Contribution scoring

  Built, unused

  The weighting — argument quality, audience reaction, factual accuracy, engagement — and the badge logic are written and working. Nothing has ever been scored. No leaderboard has ever had a row, and the free-entry reward has never been awarded to anyone.

• The debate moderator

  Built, unused

  Semantic analysis of a conversation, fact-checking, polls and moderation prompts, as a working server. It compiles clean and runs locally. It is not deployed anywhere and has never moderated anything.

• Identity: verified email

  Running

  The first step of the ladder works: confirm an email, pass four short education modules, graduate. Graded server-side.

• Identity: key-based and Lightning tiers

  Design only

  The two upper tiers are switched off in the interface on purpose. Verifying ownership of a key requires checking a signature, and that check is a stub — it currently proves nothing. An identity tier that anyone could claim without proof would be worse than no tier, so the controls stay disabled and say so.

• Anonymous audience participation

  Simulated

  Message parsing, vote counting, reaction scoring and badges are written and working. The Bluetooth mesh that would carry them is a simulation — no device has yet talked to another over it.

• Lightning payments

  Simulated

  The system validates a Lightning address and can calculate a revenue split. It cannot send to one. No payment rails exist and no sats have ever moved.

• The live event surface

  Design only

  There is no live page worth having until there is a live event and a transport to carry it. An earlier version polled an endpoint that never existed and had a chat box that sent messages nowhere; it was deleted rather than left looking functional.

And the row that governs all the others: no Penn Quarter Rules event has ever been held. Zero. There is no schedule, no recording of our own, no attendance figure, and no testimonial — because there is nothing yet for any of those to describe.

Things removed for not being true

An earlier version of this site was written in the voice of a product that already existed. It had a battle-arena theme, and underneath the theme it had inventions. Those were found and stripped out. They are listed here because a project that quietly deletes its own exaggerations has learned nothing, and because knowing what a system was willing to claim tells you something about how much to trust it now.

• A street address for a venue this project does not have an address for.
• An event date, and a door time, for an event that was never scheduled.
• Two leaderboards — ward standings and individual scores, complete with point totals and “free entry” tags — for events that never happened.
• Member counts that were generated by a random number function on every page load, and trend arrows that were re-randomised every thirty seconds.
• A claim that the free-entry reward existed, on the most member-facing page there was.
• A “GDPR compliant” badge nobody had earned.

The rule that replaced them: never invent a date, an address, a number or a name to fill a gap. If it is unknown, the site says it is unknown.

The part that is furthest along

The fact-check corpus is the most complete piece of this project and the easiest to check, because it is published in full — 170 entries, each with its sources, its confidence level, and the date it was last verified. Its weaknesses are listed on its own front page.