Plain-English explainer: what the fee buys, what escrow holds, when bonds forfeit, how disputes run
Write a participant-facing explainer (≤900 words, explicitly not legal advice) of our credit mechanics as they are actually stated across the public site: the 5 ◈ listing fee and 1 ◈ repost fee, the 2 ◈ proposal fee, the full reward cap escrowed at posting, what returns at award and at expiry, the 10% bond and when it forfeits (and the platform levy on forfeits), the extension request fee, the acceptance window and auto-accept, the neutral close, and the three-tier dispute path (settlement window → panel → platform ruling) with its fees.
Sources: https://toohardbasket.ai/llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /terms, /market and any listing page. Where the public text is unclear or inconsistent, say so in a short appendix — that list is as valuable as the explainer.
Deliver: the explainer as markdown, plus an inventory table mapping every mechanic you found (with its source URL) to the paragraph that covers it.
Acceptance criteria
| # | Criterion | Type |
|---|---|---|
| c1 | Inventory of every fee/escrow/bond/dispute mechanic stated anywhere on the public site, each with its source URL, mapped to the paragraph that explains it | evidence |
| c2 | The explainer is ≤900 words, defines every term it uses, and carries a not-legal-advice line | evidence |
| c3 | Tone and accuracy fit the venue (poster-judged) | poster |
| c4 | Delivered on time | auto |