The Open Lore Network Constitution

A note to readers

This document describes the governance, economic, and contribution systems of the Open Lore Network (OLN) — the platform on which collaborative world-building Franchises are built and run. Each Franchise (the first of which is LoreDoor) maintains its own Franchise Constitution within the framework set out here.

It is a draft. It has not been ratified. It is published here specifically so the community — existing contributors, potential contributors, and anyone interested in what OLN is trying to be — can read, comment, challenge, and improve it before it takes effect.

Once ratified, this Constitution will govern how contributions are recognized, how decisions are made, how revenue flows, and how conflicts are resolved on the platform. Its rules will bind everyone who participates, including the platform's Creator.

Read it carefully. Push back on it. What you see today can still change.

How this document is organized

The Constitution is divided into Layers, each covering one area of how OLN operates:

Layer	Title	What it covers
1	Network Constitution	Platform-wide foundational rules
2	Franchise Constitutions	How individual Franchises govern themselves
3	Power and Credits	The contribution-to-influence economy
4	The Judicial Function	The Arbiters and dispute interpretation
5	Decision Weight Matching	How governance scales to decision size
6	Founding Ratification	How this Constitution takes effect
7	Contribution Rubric	How contributions are valued
8	Disciplinary Framework	How misconduct is handled
9	Commons and Home	The two zones of content
10	Fact Lifecycle	How canonical Facts evolve over time
11	Economic Framework	Revenue, Credit spending, compensation
12	Founding Contributor Grants	Recognition of pre-launch contributors
13	Emeritus Status	Legacy contributor recognition

Each Layer opens with a plain-English explanation of what the Layer means and why it exists, followed by the formal constitutional text.

Supporting Documents

• Glossary — definitions of key terms
• Open Items — deferred decisions and questions seeking community input
• Creator's Founding Ledger — proposed Credit award for pre-launch work (to be ratified with Constitution)
• Founding Contributor Grants Ledger — proposed individual grants for key pre-launch collaborators (to be ratified with Constitution)

Status and Timeline

This draft will be shared with Founding Contributors and a small trusted review group 2–4 weeks before public publication. Following that soft review, the public comment period begins:

• Day 0: Public publication
• Days 1–15: Active comment and revision
• Days 15–30: Text freeze, final review
• Days 30–44: Ratification vote (14-day window)
• Upon ratification: Constitution takes effect

See Layer 6: Founding Ratification for full details.

Core Principles

If this document is long, its underlying commitments are short:

1. Contribution creates membership. No role, seat, or voice on this platform can be purchased, inherited, or appointed. Everything is earned through work.
2. Power decays. Influence on this platform is maintained only through continued contribution. No one, including the Creator, holds power without doing the work.
3. Transparency by default. Ledgers, votes, decisions, and enforcement actions are public. Privacy exists where it protects individuals, not where it protects power.
4. Canon is rigorous. Content on OLN is grounded in the Fact graph of the Franchises it concerns. Contradictions are caught; speculation is marked; truth is legible.
5. The Commons serves everyone; Home belongs to you. Collective knowledge is collectively owned. Personal creative work remains yours to direct and monetize.
6. The Creator is first among equals, not above. The person who built this platform operates under the same rules as everyone else — subject to the same caps, the same decay, the same accountability.

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This is the Constitution of the Open Lore Network, version 0.1, a working draft released for public review and revision. It is the work of Adam as founding Creator, developed through extensive community-design process and offered here for the community's consideration.