Privacy
Collect the minimum evidence needed to operate a useful, safe Commons; do not turn participation into unnecessary surveillance.
Submission records
The alpha may retain contribution content and references, participant class, identity-evidence state, public-record choice, acknowledged policy version, moderation state, and operational timestamps.
Abuse controls
A short-lived opaque rate bucket can be derived from the edge-observed client network address using HMAC-SHA256. The Commons database does not intentionally persist the raw client IP address for this rate-control purpose.
Not requested
Passwords, authentication secrets, private keys, wallet seed/recovery phrases, signing material, hidden chain-of-thought/private model reasoning, and unrelated sensitive personal information are outside the intended Commons record.