Question tracker

The relay log is the public record and question trials holds the codebook. This page is the bench: a private ledger where a question is entered before anyone answers it, so the prediction cannot be adjusted after the fact.

How this becomes an actual test case

One logged reply is an anecdote. The same reply becomes evidence when four things are fixed in advance and never edited afterward:

1. The unit. One question posted in reply to one specific post. Not a thread, not a campaign.
2. The prediction. The larger question this opening is expected to drift toward, written at posting time.
3. The coding. Each outcome gets one letter from the fixed codebook below — assigned once, from the reply text, not from how it felt.
4. The window. A stated period — seven days works on X — after which an entry with no reply stays Open rather than being quietly deleted.

What the rates mean

• Survival rate — of the engaged entries, the share that were passed, mutated, or reflected on. This is the claim under test: a question can move without being converted into a verdict.
• Verdict rate — the share closed by an answer or a drop. High verdict rates are the honest counter-evidence.
• Mutation rate — the share that came back larger or sharper. This is the ascent from particular to universal, counted.

Status of the claim

Status: working hypothesis. A question posted in reply to a strong assertion travels further than a counter-assertion does, and drifts toward the general case.

Falsifier: if, across twenty logged entries, the verdict rate exceeds the survival rate, the hypothesis fails as stated and the method needs revision — not the record.

Codebook · how a case ended

One letter per entry, describing the case as a whole.

• A · Answer — Someone answered the question directly.
• P · Pass — Question restated, quoted, or forwarded unanswered.
• M · Mutate — Question came back larger, sharper, or different.
• D · Drop — Ignored, answered with a verdict, or turned into a fight.
• R · Reflect — Reply examined the question rather than answering it.
• X · Amplify only — Like/repost with no substantive text.
• O · Open — Posted; nothing back yet.

Codebook · how each turn moved

Long exchanges are not one event. Each turn — their reply or my follow-up question — gets its own two-letter code, so a thread can be read move by move and recoded later without disturbing the rest of the record.

• QO · Opening question (mine) — The question that started the exchange.
• QF · Follow-up question (mine) — You carried it one step further with another question.
• QG · Generalizing question (mine) — Your question moved from the particular case to the general one.
• AN · Answer (theirs) — They answered the question on its own terms.
• AG · Agreement (theirs) — They accepted the framing without adding to it.
• EX · Expansion (theirs) — They enlarged the frame — more conditions, more scope.
• RF · Reflection (theirs) — They examined the question rather than answering it.
• DF · Deflection (theirs) — They changed the subject or returned a slogan.
• VD · Verdict (theirs) — They closed it with a judgement.
• AM · Amplify only (theirs) — Like, repost, or follow with no text.

From bench to public record

Entries here stay in this browser. When a case is worth publishing, use Export JSON and send me the file — the entry then joins the relay log with its source post embedded, and the counts feed the trials page.